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"Change is scary, even if it promises a better life."

"As we listen to one another's anxieties and problems, we understand that it's not what's happening to you ... it is how you cope with it, survive it, and don't give up and drink over it ... dashed career hopes, unrequited love, crippling disease, poverty, approaching death. Together we face it, equipped only with the vast, previously undiscovered resources of power within us, which faced and conquered alcoholism for us."

"I am finally leaning really to live one day at a time and to appreciate and be alert to the beautiful, marvel-filled, albeit sometimes infuriating world around me. This is a startlingly pleasant reward."

"When I begin to look where the answer really is -- inside of me -- I get a sense of 'rightness' when I speak or hear the truth. Step Six helps me develop a sense of intuition that I can truly count on."

"I pray for the willingness to listen carefully to everyone I encounter, for some may have the words I need to hear."

"When faith has entered the front door of our hearts, fear goes out the back."

"The place to start in achieving an informed group conscience is with myself."

"My energy is now my own. I don't have to spend it on being angry and negative ... There's no longer that terrible rush to judgment"

"I have a feeling that if I ever find myself in Heaven, it will be from backing away from Hell."