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"Most of us do follow, in our personal lives, the Twelve suggested Steps to recovery ... We do this from choice. We prefer recovery to death. Then, little by little, we ... conform because we want to."

"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."