Recovery Thoughts & Quotes 10/11

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~*~A.A. Thoughts For The Day~*~



Trouble
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"In AA, we learned that trouble was really a fact of life for everybody--
a fact that had to be understood and dealt with.
Surprisingly, we found that our troubles could,
under God's grace, be converted into unimagined blessings.
Indeed, that was the essence of AA itself:
trouble accepted, trouble squarely faced with calm courage,
trouble lessened and often transcended.
This was the AA story, and we became a part of it.
Such demonstrations became our stock in trade
for the next sufferer."
Bill W., Letter, 1966
As Bill Sees It, p. 110
Copyright 1967 A.A.W.S. Inc.
Thought to Consider . . .

God enters us through our wounds.






*~*~*AACRONYMS*~*~*
P A C E = Positive Attitudes Change Everything

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*~*~*~*~*^Just For Today!^*~*~*~*~*


Independent
From "The Three Legacies of Alcoholics Anonymous":
"Money-wise, Dr. Bob and I were still in a rather bad way. We were therefore allotted $30 a week [in 1940], and enough was on hand to keep this up for a year. Thereafter the [Rockefeller] dinner guests were solicited annually and the proceeds were always divided in the same way. Four years later we were able to write Mr. Rockefeller and his friends of the Union Club dinner that we needed no more funds. By then royalties from the book were giving Dr. Bob and me the help we needed, and the A.A. groups had begun to pick up the load of supporting the Headquarters office. At that point the A.A. Tradition of 'no outside contributions' went into full force and effect. Mr. Rockefeller and his friends had given us something more valuable than money. They had put A.A. on the map."

2001 AAWS, Inc.; Alcoholics Anonymous Comes of Age, pgs. 186-88

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*~*~*~*~*^ Big Book Quote ^*~*~*~*~*
"We have seen the truth demonstrated again and again: 'Once an
alcoholic, always an alcoholic.' Commencing to drink after a period
of sobriety, we are in a short time as bad as ever."

Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, More About Alcoholism, pg. 33

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Misc. AA Literature - Quote




The alarming thing about pride-blindness is the ease with which it is justified. But we need not look far to see that self-justification is a universal destroyer of harmony and of love. It sets man against man, nation against nation. By it, every form of folly and violence can be made to look right, and even respectable.

It would be a product of false pride to claim that A.A. is a cure-all, even for alcoholism.

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Member Submitted Quote



Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ( Mark Twain )

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12 x 12 Quote

"There was actually a time when the press of America thought the
anonymity of AA was better for us than some of our own members did.
At one point, about a hundred of our Society were breaking anonymity
at the public level. With perfectly good intent, these folks declared
that the principle of anonymity was horse-and-buggy stuff, something
appropriate to AA's pioneering days. They were sure that AA could go
faster and farther if it availed itself of modern publicity methods.
AA, they pointed out, included many persons of local, national, or
international fame. Provided they were willing--and many were--why
shouldn't their membership be publicized, thereby encouraging others
to join us? These were plausible arguments, but happily our friends
of the writing profession disagreed with them." (Twelve and Twelve,
Tradition Eleven, pg. 182)