How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch.
BILL W.Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.
More Bill W. Quotes
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Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.
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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.
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Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.
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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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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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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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Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.
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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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I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.
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The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.
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More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor
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No matter how unreasonable others may seem, I am responsible for not reacting negatively.
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Guilt is really the reverse side of the coin of pride. Guilt aims at self-destruction, and pride aims at the destruction of others.
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Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
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I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.
BILL W.