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I have found that the process of discovering who I really am begins with knowing who I really don't
want to be.
Alcoholics Anonymous
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I have come to believe that hard times are not just meaningless suffering and that something good
might turn up at any moment. That's a big change for someone who used to come to in the morning
feeling sentenced to another day of life. When I wake up today, there are lots of possibilities. I can
hardly wait to see what's going to happen next.
Alcoholics Anonymous
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When I stopped living in the problem and began living in the answer, the problem went away.
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We have learned that the satisfaction of instincts cannot be the sole aim of our lives.
Alcoholics Anonymous, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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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.
Alcoholics Anonymous
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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.
Alcoholics Anonymous
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From experience, I've realized that I cannot go back and make a brand-new start. But through A.A.,
I can start from now and make a brand-new end.
Alcoholics Anonymous
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One day at a time.

Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous - Big Book

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...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.
Alcoholics Anonymous
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Definition of an alcoholic is an egomaniac with an inferiority complex

Alcoholics Anonymous
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We sometimes hurt those we love because they need to be taught a lesson, when we really want to
punish. We were depressed and complained we felt bad, when in fact we were mainly asking for
sympathy and attention. This odd trait of mind and emotion, this perverse wish to hide a bad motive
underneath a good one, permeates human affairs from top to bottom. This subtle and elusive kind of
self-righteousness can underlie the smallest act or thought. Learning daily to spot, admit, and correct
these flaws is the essence of character-building and good living. An honest regret for harms done, a
genuine gratitude for blessings received, and a willingness to try for better things tomorrow will be
the permanent assets we shall seek.
Alcoholics Anonymous, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions
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The feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds
us.
Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous - Big Book
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First of all, we had to quit playing God. It didn't work.

Alcoholics Anonymous
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There is an island of opportunity in the middle of every difficulty.

Alcoholics Anonymous
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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.
Alcoholics Anonymous
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To be vital, faith must be accompanied by self sacrifice and unselfish, constructive action.
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If we were to live, we had to be free of anger.

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I simply had to believe in a Spirit of the Universe, who knew neither time nor limitation.
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Through the years I had quit on everything that ever mattered: college, going for promotions,
relationships - at least the relationships that demanded any work.
Alcoholics Anonymous
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Avoid then, the deliberate manufacture of misery, but if trouble comes, cheerfully capitalize it as an
opportunity to demonstrate His omnipotence.
Alcoholics Anonymous
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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.
Alcoholics Anonymous
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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.
Alcoholics Anonymous
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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.
Alcoholics Anonymous
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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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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.
Alcoholics Anonymous
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And acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find
some person, place, thing, or situation "some fact of my life" unacceptable to me, and I can find no
serenity until I accept that person, place, thing, or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to
be at this moment.
Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous - Big Book
tags: acceptance, alcoholics-anonymous, serenity
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How did people have conversations anyway? How did they meet and then begin to talk as if they
had known each other for years?
Alcoholics Anonymous
tags: aa
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As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and ask for the right thought or
action. We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the show, humbly saying to
ourselves many times each day Thy will be done. We are then in much less danger of excitement,
fear, anger, worry, self-pity, or foolish decisions. We become much more efficient. We do not tire so
easily, for we are not burning up energy foolishly as we did when we were trying to arrange life to suit
ourselves.
Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition
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We must lose our fear of creditors no matter how far we have to go, for we are liable to drink if we
are afraid to face them.
Alcoholics Anonymous, Alcoholics Anonymous
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It is a spiritual axiom that every time we are disturbed, no matter what the cause, there is something
wrong with us.
Alcoholics Anonymous, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions