Bill W. Quotes

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More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He is very much the actor

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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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True ambition is not what we thought it was. True ambition is the profound desire to live usefully and walk humbly under the grace of God.

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Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.

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For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong.

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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.

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We admitted we were powerless over alcohol—that our lives had become unmanageable. Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

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Nowadays my brain no longer races compulsively in either elation, grandiosity, or depression. I have been given a quiet place in bright sunshine.

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Each day my friend's simple talk in our kitchen multiplies itself in a widening circle of peace on earth and good will to men.

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How dark it is before the dawn! In reality that was the beginning of my last debauch. I was soon to be catapulted into what I like to call the fourth dimension of existence. I was to know happiness, peace, and usefulness, in a way of life that is incredibly more wonderful as time passes.

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We have no desire to convince anyone that there is only one way by which faith can be acquired.

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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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