Top 41 Alcoholics Anonymous Quotes
#1. Identifying, they said, was trying to see how I was like the people I was with. Comparing, they told me, was looking for differences, usually seeing how I was better than others.
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#2. We should be sensible, tactful, considerate and humble without being servile or scraping. As God's people we stand on our feet; we don't crawl before anyone.
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#3. It will take time to clear away the wreck. Though old buildings will eventually be replaced by finer ones, the new structures will take years to complete.
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#5. Almost none of us liked the self-searching, the leveling of our pride, the confession of shortcomings which the process requires for its successful consummation.
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#6. I simply had to believe in a Spirit of the Universe, who knew neither time nor limitation.
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#7. We have learned that the satisfaction of instincts cannot be the sole aim of our lives.
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#8. How did people have conversations anyway? How did they meet and then begin to talk as if they had known each other for years?
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#9. A New Year: 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, 8,760 hours, 525,600 minutes - a
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#10. It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something wrong with us.
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#11. They sound like the philosophy of a man who, having a headache, beats himself on the head with a hammer so that he cannot feel the ache.
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#13. The feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us.
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#14. ...one of the primary differences between alcoholics and nonalcoholics is that nonalcoholics change their behavior to meet their goals and alcoholics change their goals to meet their behaviors.
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#15. Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor.
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#18. We cannot subscribe to the belief that this life is a vale of tears, though it once was just that for many of us. But it is clear that we make our own misery.
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#20. To this day, I am amazed at how many of my problems - most of which had nothing to do with drinking, I believed - have become manageable or have simply disappeared since I quit drinking.
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#23. I was self conscious and ill at ease most of the time, my health was at the breaking point, and I was thoroughly miserable.
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#24. As one of my early A.A. sponsors used to say, I didn't hang out with lower companions - I had become one.
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#25. If, when you honestly want to, you find you cannot quit entirely, or if when drinking, you have little control over the amount you take, you are probably alcoholic.
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#26. If we still cling to something we will not let go, we ask God to help us be willing.
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#27. I've been benefited from a dictionary definition I found that reads: "Rationalization is giving a socially acceptable reason for socially unacceptable behavior, and socially unacceptable behavior is a form of insanity.
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#28. Avoid then, the deliberate manufacture of misery, but if trouble comes, cheerfully capitalize it as an opportunity to demonstrate His omnipotence.
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#30. Being a little kinder, a little slower to anger, a little more loving makes my life better - day by day.
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#31. In all times of emotional disturbance or indecision, we can pause, ask for quiet, and in the stillness simply say: "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Thy will, not mine, be done.
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#32. The greatest enemies of us alcoholics are resentment, jealousy, envy, frustration, and fear.
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#33. To get over drinking will require a transformation of thought and attitude.
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#35. To be vital, faith must be accompanied by self sacrifice and unselfish, constructive action.
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#36. No one waits to trap him in a lie. He is told what lies he is getting ready to tell.
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#37. I have found that the process of discovering who I really am begins with knowing who I really don't want to be.
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#38. When I stopped living in the problem and began living in the answer, the problem went away.
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#39. I had sent her to four consecutive psychiatrists, and not one of them had gotten me sober.
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#40. Through the years I had quit on everything that ever mattered: college, going for promotions, relationships - at least the relationships that demanded any work.
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