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Daily Quotes from the Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous | Twelve Steps & Twelve Traditions

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I knew that this man had something. In that short period he built within me something that I had long since lost, which was hope. #Sponsor #BigBookStories

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We can share in the laughter and tears of our many friends, and most important, we can share our #AA way of life. #BigBook

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I saw for the first time that those who really believed, or at least honestly tried to find a Power greater than themselves, were much more composed and contented than I had ever been. #BigBookStories #HigherPower

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All of us in #AA know the tremendous happiness that is in our #sobriety, but there are also tragedies. #BigBookStories

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I get my greatest thrill of accomplishment from the knowledge that I have played a part in the new happiness achieved by countless others like myself. #BigBookStories #AA

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I want to keep this life of peace, #serenity, and tranquility that I have found. #AA #BigBook

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One of the most fundamental things I have learned is to pass on our message to other #alcoholics. That means I must think more about others than about myself. #BigBook

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I told myself it was because of fate, because everyone was against me, because things weren’t going well. I sometimes thought that God did not exist. #Alcoholism #BigBook

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I still go to meetings, because I like to go. I meet the people that I like to talk to. Another reason that I go is that I’m still #grateful for the good years that I’ve had. #AA #BigBook

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I was willing to admit to myself that I had hit bottom, that I had gotten hold of something that I didn’t know how to handle by myself. #Powerless #Step1 #AA

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These minutes and sometimes hours spent in self-examination are bound to make all the other hours of our day better and happier. #AA #12and12

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There will be those who ought to be dealt with just as soon as we become reasonably confident that we can maintain our #sobriety. #Amends #Step9

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This attitude, of course, is the end result of purposeful forgetting. It is an attitude which can only be changed by a deep and honest search of our motives and actions. #Alcoholism #12and12

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When we were frustrated, even in part, we drank for oblivion. Never was there enough of what we thought we wanted. #Alcoholism #AA

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Delay is dangerous, and rebellion may be fatal. This is the exact point at which we abandon limited objectives, and move toward God’s will for us. #HigherPower #AA

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It is plain for everybody to see that each sober #AA member has been granted a release from this very obstinate and potentially fatal obsession. #Recovery

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As the pain subsides, a healing tranquility takes its place. And when #humility and #serenity are so combined, something else of great moment is apt to occur. #Recovery

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No one ought to say the #AA program requires no willpower; here is one place you may require all you’ve got. #12and12

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Another great dividend we may expect from confiding our defects to another human being is #humility, a word often misunderstood. #12and12

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We loaf and procrastinate, or at best work grudgingly and under half steam. These fears are the termites that ceaselessly devour the foundations of whatever sort of life we try to build. #Alcoholism #AA