We admitted we were powerless over alcohol-that our lives had become unmanageable. We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves would restore us to sanity.
BILL W.When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.
More Bill W. Quotes
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The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.
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No personal calamity is so crushing that something true and great can’t be made of it
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More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
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Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.
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If more gifts are to be received, our awakening has to go on. As it does go on, we find that bit by bit we can discard the old life – the one that did not work – for a new life that can and does work under any conditions whatever.
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We know that if we rebel against doing that which is reasonably possible for us, then we will be penalized. And we will be equally penalized if we presume in ourselves a perfection that simply is not there.
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No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I am responsible for not reacting negatively.
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Years ago I used to commiserate with all people who suffered. Now I commiserate only with those who suffer in ignorance, who do not understand the purpose and ultimate utility of pain
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I am the creator of my own reality. When I [review my day], I know that I must stop judging others.
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No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.
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Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
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Learning how to live in the greatest peace, partnership, and brotherhood with all men and women, of whatever description, is a moving and fascinating adventure.
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Regardless of what is happening around me I will always have the prerogative, and the responsibility, of choosing what happens within me.
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We will see that our new attitude toward liquor has been given to us without any thought or effort on our part. It just comes! That is the miracle of it.
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When brimming with gratitude, one’s heartbeat must surely result in outgoing love, the finest emotion we can ever know.
BILL W.