Recovery Quotes | 12 Steps to Recovery
For Today –
Most of our experiences are what the psychologist William
James calls the “educational variety” because they develop
slowly over a period of time. Quite often friends of the new-
comer are aware of the difference long before he is himself.
-- Spiritual Experience, Alcoholics…
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For Today --
What sort of thinking dominates an alcoholic who repeats
time after time the desperate experiment of the first drink?
Friends who have reasoned with him after a spree which
has brought him to the point of divorce or bankruptcy are
mystified when he walks directly into a saloon.
Why does he? Of what is he thinking?
-- Alcoholics Anonymous, page…
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For Today –
Were we kind and loving toward all?
-- Alcoholics Anonymous, page 86
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We are not obliged to like anyone; but we are under a
binding obligation to love everyone, love, or charity as
the Bible calls it, meaning a vivid sense of impersonal
good will. This has…
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For Today –
Perhaps the best thing of all for me is to remember that my serenity is
inversely proportional to my expectations. The higher my expectations
of Max and other people are, the lower is my serenity. I can watch my
serenity level rise when I discard my expectations. But then my “rights”
try to move in, and they, too, can force my serenity level down. I have to
discard my “rights,” as well as my expectations, by…
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For Today –
For thousands of years we have been demanding more than our share of security,
prestige, and romance. When we seemed to be succeeding, we drank to dream
still greater dreams. When we were frustrated, even in part, we drank for oblivion.
Never was there enough of what we thought we wanted. In all these strivings, so
many of them well-intentioned, our crippling handicap had been our lack…
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For Today --
The remonstrances of my friends terminated
in a row and I became a lone wolf.
-- Bill’s Story, Alcoholics Anonymous, page 3
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It was the wicked and wild wind
Blew down the doors to let me in
Shattered windows and the sound of drums
People couldn't believe what I'd…
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