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“With the help of the Fellowship, the Twelve Steps, and a Higher Power ... I do not have to be a newcomer again.”

“I have made a determined effort to focus more on seeing myself as God sees me.”

“While we readily share our views, perhaps one of the nicest things about the AA program is that we don’t always have to agree with each other.”

“Those little maxims ‘Easy Does It’ and ‘Live and Let Live’ have come to be deeply meaningful and significant.”

“The beauty of sobriety is that sometimes I am the one supported, and other times the one supporting. One act helps destroy my ego, the other my self-centeredness. I need to practice both actions if I want to survive”

“Always a heady wine, success may sometimes cause us to forget that each of us lives on borrowed time.”

“I don’t fear for the future because I am in the loving arms of AA today.”

“I’ve never taken my sobriety for granted because I know I’m only one drink away from ruining my life.”

“Since today marks not only the last day of my life to this date, but also the first day of the rest of my life, and since I have come to believe that the best is yet to come, I think today has been my best day sober.”

“Keeping a Tenth Step journal about my day-to-day life, my relations with other people, and the stuff that still roiled around in my head helped me see patterns in my thoughts and behavior, which I could discuss with my sponsor. And once I began to sit quietly, reflect on what I’d written, and pray, I began to sleep peacefully for the first time in my life.”

“One night, in a moment of desperation, I got down on my knees and remembered a prayer an old sponsor had given me. It said, ‘God, help me be of service ... to something or someone...’ I knew intuitively it was the answer.”

“The temptations of riches could sometimes be worse than the pains of poverty.”

“Seeing my defects is not enough to make them improve or go away -- the solution seems to be following awareness with action.”

“How does one tune in to the Higher Power? The answer I have learned from AA is to recharge my spiritual battery every day -- ‘you can’t pull today’s load with yesterday’s horse.’”

“I found I had to exert every ounce of will and action to cut off these faulty emotional dependencies upon people, upon AA, indeed, upon any set of circumstances whatever. Then only could I be free to love.”