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“Life is lived moment to moment ... and every moment provides me with an opportunity for growth.”

“By the fall of 1937 we could count what looked like forty recovered members. One of us had been sober three years, another two and a half, and a fair number had a year or more behind them. As all of us had been hopeless cases, this amount of time elapsed began to be significant. The realization that we ‘had found something’ began to take hold of us. No longer were we a dubious experiment. Alcoholics could stay sober.”

“I still don’t know much about heaven, but I’ve learned some valuable lessons about life on earth.”

“A large part of my recovery has been in learning how not to listen to myself.”

“Sobriety is a constant process of uncovering, discovering, and discarding.”

“I did not know what real happiness was when I came through the doors of AA. I needed someone to teach me.”

“My local meetings are big on this spot-check reminder: you get what you get; it’s what you do with it that counts.”

“The great art of living is to make the best of things as they are.”