67 Quotes by Alcoholics Anonymous

I have found that the process of discovering who I really am begins with knowing who I really don't want to be.

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.

When I stopped living in the problem and began living in the answer, the problem went away.

...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.

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.

The feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us.

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.

If we were to live, we had to be free of anger.

I simply had to believe in a Spirit of the Universe, who knew neither time nor limitation.