7 Quotes by Al-Anon Family Groups

The process of turning our life and will over to the care of God in Step Three begins by working the rest of the Steps and it involves more than giving up our defects. It involves giving God our assets, too.

We have a right to expect more from life than mere survival.

We are powerless over another’s alcoholism. We didn’t cause the disease. We can’t control it. And we can’t cure it.

In attempting to protect ourselves, we let our personalities slip away until we were emotionally numb. Struggling.

While these loved ones may not meet our expectations, it is our expectations, not our loved ones, that have let us down.

Lord, when we are wrong, make us willing to change. And when we are right, make us easy to live with.” Peter Marshall.

I must learn to give those I love the right to make their own mistakes and recognize them as theirs alone.