Grapevine Daily Quote April 27, 2019
“I didn’t need to learn how to meditate before meditating. It turned out to be one of those learn-as-you-go things -- just as learning how to stay sober is part of staying sober a day at a time.”
Grapevine Daily Quote April 28, 2019
“Nothing improves if you drink.”
Grapevine Daily Quote April 29, 2019
“Up to now AA seems to have taken the right turning at each new crossroad. This could scarcely have been our doing alone. Our Fellowship has afforded a convincing proof of that wise old adage which declares that ‘man’s extremity is God’s opportunity.’”
Grapevine Daily Quote April 30, 2019
“I am finally learning really to live one day at a time and to appreciate and be alert to the beautiful, marvel-filled, albeit sometimes infuriating world around me.”
Grapevine Daily Quote May 10, 2018
“Tomorrow – and all the tomorrows to come – are but extensions of right here, right now.”
Grapevine Daily Quote May 11, 2018
“We need to constantly scrutinize ourselves carefully, in order to make everlastingly certain that we shall always be strong enough and single-purposed enough from within, to relate ourselves rightly to the world without.”
Grapevine Daily Quote May 12, 2018
“We reject fantasizing and accept reality. And we find it beautiful. For, at last, we are at peace with ourselves. And with others. And with God.”
Grapevine Daily Quote May 13, 2018
“When I can identify my own shortcomings in another, the battleground between us is removed.”
Grapevine Daily Quote May 14, 2018
“Why dwell on what you can’t do? ... Why not concentrate on what you can do and do it?”
Grapevine Daily Quote May 15, 2018
“A religious, or spiritual experience, is the act of giving up reliance on one’s own omnipotence.”
Grapevine Daily Quote May 16, 2018
“I was told when I got sober that I could act my way into right thinking, but I could never think my way into right action.”
Grapevine Daily Quote May 17, 2018
“I need to remember how humiliated, confused, insecure and frightened I felt at my first meeting, and compare that to how I feel today.”
Grapevine Daily Quote May 18, 2018
“Trying to figure it all out in my head brings on waves of fear, anxiety, and self-reproach. So I say, ‘What can I do for myself and others today?’”
Grapevine Daily Quote May 19, 2018
“In AA we aim not only for sobriety – we try again to become citizens of the world that we rejected, and of the world that once rejected us.”
Grapevine Daily Quote May 20, 2018
“Human beings come and go, but principles go on and on.”
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Grapevine Daily Quote June 10
“Instead of looking backward into the dreariness of my past, I’m looking forward to a bright future because I’ve finally taken responsibility for my life.”
Grapevine Daily Quote June 11
“Not to change is not to adapt; not to adapt is to become extinct.”
Grapevine Daily Quote June 12
“Our very first problem is to accept our present circumstances as they are, ourselves as we are, and the people about us as they are. This is to adopt a realistic humility without which no genuine advance can even begin.”
Grapevine Daily Quote June 13
“We must never be blindsided by the futile philosophy that we are just the hapless victims of our inheritance, our life experience, and our surroundings—that these are the sole forces that make our decisions for us ... We have to believe that we can really choose.”
Grapevine Daily Quote June 14
“I no longer view the dishes as an unpleasant task. I see them as an opportunity to meditate ... I concentrate on washing the dishes and not on what I’m going to do next. The most important thing is what’s in front of me—now.”
Grapevine Daily Quote June 15
“The history of AA shows that whenever a great need arises, that need is always met. In this respect, I’m quite sure that our history will go on repeating itself.”
Grapevine Daily Quote June 16
“Since personal calamity holds us in bondage no more, our most challenging concern has become the future of Alcoholics Anonymous; how to preserve among us AAs such a powerful unity that neither weakness of persons nor the strain and strife of these troubled times can harm our common cause.”
Grapevine Daily Quote June 17
“Responsibility is a gift; and although we are not obliged to receive it, we will never come to know the peace, assurance, and love of a vital sobriety until we do.”
Grapevine Daily Quote June 18
“Not drinking is the first requirement for joy; the second requirement is gratitude."
Grapevine Daily Quote June 19
“Only in giving do we receive in full measure.”
Grapevine Daily Quote June 20
“I have begun to trust my friends enough to lean on them.”
Grapevine Daily Quote June 21
“The world of truth is the world of what is. It is the room I sit in, the sleeping kitten, the job that must be done. It is here. It is now.”
Grapevine Daily Quote June 22
“Emotional and instinctual satisfactions, I saw, were really the extra dividends of having love, offering love, and expressing love appropriate to each relation of life.”
Grapevine Daily Quote June 23
“No matter what is going on in my life, no matter how bad things seem, I can always find something to be grateful for if I just look hard enough.”
Grapevine Daily Quote June 24
“I’m not here to change Alcoholics Anonymous; Alcoholics Anonymous is here to change me.”