Quote Feb 23 2016
"I am free to like and enjoy what I have. I don't need to exhibit my high values by hating my rowboat for not being a yacht, my house for not being a palace, my child for not being a prodigy."
Islamadora, Fla., November 1971 From: "The Impossible Dream"Best of the Grapevine, Vol. 1
Quote February 23, 2013
“I am free to like and enjoy what I have. I don’t need to exhibit my high values by hating my rowboat for not being a yacht, my house for not being a palace, my child for not being a prodigy.”
Islamadora, Fla., November 1971 From: “The Impossible Dream” Best of the Grapevine, Vol. 1
October 15, 2013
“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.”
AA Co-Founder, Bill W., January 1958 “The Next Frontier: Emotional Sobriety” The Language of the Heart
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