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Grapevine Daily Quote October 15, 2018

“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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Quote October 15, 2016

“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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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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Grapevine Daily Quote June 6, 2019

“There will always be people in the Fellowship with whom I don’t see eye-to-eye, but that doesn’t mean we can’t work together. The Fellowship wouldn’t be what it is today if we always saw eye-to-eye on everything.”

Goffstown, New Hampshire, September 1994, “Principles Before Personalities,”, AA Grapevine
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Quote June 6, 2017

“There will always be people in the Fellowship with whom I don’t see eye-to-eye, but that doesn’t mean we can’t work together. The Fellowship wouldn’t be what it is today if we always saw eye-to-eye on everything.”

Goffstown, N.H., September 1994 “Principles Before Personalities,” AA Grapevine
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Quote June 6, 2014

“There will always be people in the Fellowship with whom I don’t see eye-to-eye, but that doesn’t mean we can’t work together. The Fellowship wouldn’t be what it is today if we always saw eye-to-eye on everything.”

Goffstown, New Hampshire, September 1994 “Principles Before Personalities,” AA Grapevine

Quote August 9, 2016

“I do not need to make amends on my hands and knees; I need to walk tall, without false pride. When I go in humility and sincerely ask people to forgive me, this will remove the burden from my shoulders.”

Reynoldsburg, OH, September 1979 “Persons We Had Harmed” AA Grapevine
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Quote August 9, 2015

"I do not need to make amends on my hands and knees; I need to walk tall, without false pride. When I go in humility and sincerely ask people to forgive me, this will remove the burden from my shoulders."

Reynoldsburg, OH, September 1979     "Persons We Had Harmed"    AA Grapevine

Quote August 9 2012

"I do not need to make amends on my hands and knees; I need to walk tall, without false pride. When I go in humility and sincerely ask people to forgive me, this will remove the burden from my shoulders."

Reynoldsburg, Ohio, September 1979 From: "Persons We Had Harmed" AA Grapevine
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Quote June 13, 2015

"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."

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., March 1962 "What Is Acceptance" Best of the Grapevine, Volume 1
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Dr. Bob - a Tribute to AA'S Beloved Co-founder

November 1975
By: Bill W.
In an issue of the Grapevine dedicated to the memory of Dr. Bob, Bill writes of the beginnings and of an ending that was not an end - From the January 1951 Grapevine (now out of print)

Alcoholics Anonymous and Physicians

September 1974
By: James D., MD
Writing in an important medical journal, this AA doctor tells his story for the benefit of his medical colleagues--and all of us

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Grapevine Daily Quote May 25, 2019

“We are not a sociological entity, although sociologists find us fascinating. We are not a therapy group, although remarkable healing takes place among us. And we are not a religion, even though some people want to see us as such ... We are a spiritual entity.”

“Tradition Five: What a Group ‘Ought’ to Be,” May 2006, AA Grapevine
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Quote May 25, 2017

“We are not a sociological entity, although sociologists find us fascinating. We are not a therapy group, although remarkable healing takes place among us. And we are not a religion, even though some people want to see us as such ... We are a spiritual entity.”

May 2006 “Tradition Five: What a Group ‘Ought’ to Be,” AA Grapevine
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No Matter What

June 2022 | Stories by Longtimers!
By: Anonymous | Brooklyn, N.Y.
Getting sober for this nonbinary trans alcoholic was not easy. And it was about to get harder

Getting connected

December 2021 | Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
By: Paula D. | Peconic, N.Y.
Helping members plug in remotely during COVID-19 gave her valuable lessons she’ll never forget

Letting mom in

December 2021 | Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
By: Wendy G. | New Cumberland, Pa.
Sometimes we make tough choices when we get sober. But there’s always a chance for forgiveness when we try

My friend in the outback

September 2021 | Young & Sober!
By: Terrie S. | Alexandria, Va.
The new virtual meeting she found wouldn’t interfere with the COVID “date nights” with her husband, would it? Guess again

Sober at ground zero

January 2021 | Oldtimers!
By: T.Y. | Olathe, Kan.
A courageous sober doctor fights the good fight in the COVID-19 wards of a hospital near Wuhan

Spot Check On I-94

October 2020 | Money and Sobriety
By: Andy A. | St. Peters, Mo.
Trying to hold it together with a car full of rambunctious kids, a sober dad gets more and more lost. Time for Step Ten!

A Celebration of AA’s 85 Years

July 2020 | AA Around The World
By: Michele Grinberg | Chair of the General Service Board, West Virginia
The chair of the General Service Board shares her love for AA’s language of the heart

Isolation? Are You Kidding?

July 2020 | AA Around The World
By: Ruth H. | Slinger, Wis
Who said change is easy? Staying sober and sane through a health crisis requires all the Steps she’s got

A Bit of Cheer in a Tough Place

December 2019 | Remote Communities & Sober Holidays
By: Ben L. | Cañon City, Colo.
With tape, cardboard and delicious chocolate cookies, a member helps his cellmates share a little joy

Crayons, cookies & kisses

November 2019 | Grapevine Classics
By: D.B. | Carlsbad, California
With Steps, coffee and baskets of toys, some California mothers stay sober together

Life's little lessons

October 2019 | Is AA Accessible to all who need it?
By: Susanne B. | Georgetown, Texas
More and more each day, her pre-kindergarten students remind her of the wonder of sobriety

On the grass plains of Kenya

December 2018 | Sober for the Holidays and Remote Communities
By: Debbie E. | Portland, Oregon
For a woman in Oregon, sobriety made a lifelong dream of working with elephants come true

Group Inventory: A Privilege and a Duty

September 2018
By: Mel C. | Toronto, Ontario
Bringing your group together on a regular basis for formal reflection and inventory taking helps your group—and AA as a whole

Dear Grapevine

April 2018

God’s Plan

November 2017 | Issue Title Here
By: Bonnie P.
For one sober alcoholic, true gratitude came with understanding God’s plan for her

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