Grapevine Daily Quote May 1
“The ability to love can never be taken away from me, except by me. When I can get myself out of the way long enough to love another human being, it’s the best feeling I know of.”
Grapevine Daily Quote May 2
“With real faith we can defeat defeat.”
Grapevine Daily Quote May 3
“In a garden we remove or control undesirable weeds; in my personal sobriety, I remove the things that have been blocking me; and in my home group, by means of group inventory, I do something about the things that cause problems.
Grapevine Daily Quote May 4
“The sanity I’ve received through work on the Steps is far more than I could have hoped for.”
Grapevine Daily Quote May 5
“We need to be aware not only of our limitations, defects and shortcomings, but also of our strengths, talents and successes.”
Grapevine Daily Quote May 6
“Death isn’t quite as scary as the exhilarating terror of trying to accept life.”
Grapevine Daily Quote May 7
“I believe in today because it is the only day in eternity that belongs to me.”
Grapevine Daily Quote May 8
“Before we can release the spirit from its imprisonment, we must first imprison the spirits in the bottle. We place the bottle on the shelf, place ourselves in the hands of AA as we understand it, and prepare for the adventure of sobriety.”
Grapevine Daily Quote May 9
“I play a responsible role in my own destiny, not just a bit part.”
Grapevine Daily Quote June 2
“Not all of the problems created during the days when I hid in the fog of booze have straightened out, but I now have enough courage to face them squarely.”
Grapevine Daily Quote June 3
“Those who follow the AA program with the greatest earnestness and zeal not only maintain sobriety but often acquire finer characteristics and attitudes as well. One of these is tolerance.”
Grapevine Daily Quote June 4
“The things that used to keep me awake nights now no longer bother me, because I can put them against the backdrop of eternity. The long, lonely winter that was alcoholism has turned into spring – the rebirth, the renewal of my life.”
Grapevine Daily Quote June 5
“I don’t stand around on street corners just loving everybody today. But in an AA meeting or any AA gathering, I know I am in the kind of community of love that every therapy, religion, and philosophy desperately seeks. Love is our glue.”
Grapevine Daily Quote June 6
“I can now admit that most of my troubles stem from one large and glaring defect: self-centeredness.”
Grapevine Daily Quote June 7
“A good question to ask myself frequently is: What am I looking for – advice or approval?”
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Grapevine Daily Quote June 16
“Step Six may be the greatest act of courage in the whole twelve-step process: a total act of faith. I have to trust that God will see the big picture and make the right choices.”
Grapevine Daily Quote June 14
“Alcoholics Anonymous has an answer to problems in sobriety, making sobriety, eventually, something wonderful instead of something that can drive people to drink.”
Grapevine Daily Quote January 16
“I found that the little things I took for granted on a daily basis were the things that meant the most.”
Grapevine Daily Quote January 23
“The only thing that could chase my disease was the sun rising on a new morning. Just like when I was counting days, and I would wake up and think, Hey, I made it.”
Grapevine Daily Quote January 22
“We have all known and seen miracles – the healing of broken individuals, the rebuilding of broken homes. And always, it has been constructive, personal Twelfth Step work based on an ever-upward-looking faith which has done the job.”
Grapevine Daily Quote January 24
“The essence of all growth is a willingness to change for the better and then an unremitting willingness to shoulder whatever responsibility this entails.”
Grapevine Daily Quote January 25
“I’ve learned that I am not responsible for anyone’s happiness except my own. Most importantly, I learned that true happiness is an inside job.”
Grapevine Daily Quote January 27
“Had I not been blessed with wise and loving advisers, I might have cracked up long ago.”
Grapevine Daily Quote January 26
“The leap of faith must be taken again and again over greater and greater distances.”
Grapevine Daily Quote January 31
“Because each of us, at any moment, is the sum total of every choice he or she has ever made, it is not sheer fantasy to expect each day to be the very best day we have yet lived.”
Grapevine Daily Quote February 13
“I no longer always have to be right.”
Grapevine Daily Quote February 16
“It’s true that the only requirement for membership in AA is a desire to stop drinking. But if you absolutely want a better life, well, hmmm ... How’s this? Working the Steps with a sponsor is a really good idea.”
Grapevine Daily Quote February 15
“Putting principles before personalities, both inside and outside the Fellowship, does not always endear me to everyone, but I would rather be disliked for what I am than liked for what I am not.”
Grapevine Daily Quote February 14
“Compromise comes hard to us ‘all-or-nothing drunks.’ Nevertheless, we must never lose sight of the fact that progress is nearly always characterized by a series of improving compromises.”
Grapevine Daily Quote February 17
“What is involved in taking the entire AA program, as the early AAs gave it to us, is not the prospect of turning into some sort of repulsive goody-goody. It’s the threat of being truly alive, aware, and perhaps even ecstatic.”