67 Quotes by Alcoholics Anonymous

At long last, you have come to realize that service to others is all you have to offer in this life!

The essence of all growth is a willingness to make a change for the better and then an unremitting willingness to shoulder whatever responsibility this entails.

You hit bottom when you stop digging.

A New Year: 12 months, 52 weeks, 365 days, 8,760 hours, 525,600 minutes – a.

In my recovery, I learned that the pain of my defects is the very substance God uses to cleanse my character and to set me free.

The feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us. But that in itself would never have held us together as we are now joined. The tremendous fact for every one of us is that we have discovered a common solution. We have a way out on which we can absolutely agree, and upon which we can join in brotherly and harmonious action.

Being a little kinder, a little slower to anger, a little more loving makes my life better – day by day.

I have no control over some of the things that happen in my life, but with the help of God I can now choose how I will respond. Today I choose to be happy, and when I’m not, I have the tools of this program to put me back on track.

The first thing apparent was that this world and its people were often quite wrong. To conclude that others were wrong was as far as most of us ever got. The usual outcome was that people continued to wrong us and we stayed sore. Sometimes it was remorse and then we were sore at ourselves. But the more we fought and tried to have our own way, the worse matters got. As in war, the victor only seemed to win. Our moments of triumph were short-lived.