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“We need to constantly scrutinize ourselves carefully, in order to make everlastingly certain that we shall always be strong enough and single-purposed enough from within, to relate ourselves rightly to the world without.”

“We reject fantasizing and accept reality. And we find it beautiful. For, at last, we are at peace with ourselves. And with others. And with God.”

“When I can identify my own shortcomings in another, the battleground between us is removed.”

“Why dwell on what you can’t do? ... Why not concentrate on what you can do and do it?”

“A religious, or spiritual experience, is the act of giving up reliance on one’s own omnipotence.”

“I was told when I got sober that I could act my way into right thinking, but I could never think my way into right action.”

“I need to remember how humiliated, confused, insecure and frightened I felt at my first meeting, and compare that to how I feel today.”

“Trying to figure it all out in my head brings on waves of fear, anxiety, and self-reproach. So I say, ‘What can I do for myself and others today?’”

“In AA we aim not only for sobriety – we try again to become citizens of the world that we rejected, and of the world that once rejected us.”

“Human beings come and go, but principles go on and on.”

“I build today the road I travel tomorrow.”

“The most difficult thing a man can do is turn his eyes inward upon his real self.”

“When I’m in fear, my sponsor always tells me, ‘Maybe you should get a bigger God.’”

“Simplicity, devotion, steadfastness, and loyalty; these, we remembered, were the hallmarks of character which Dr. Bob had well implanted in so many of us.”

“We will still have daydreams ... But they will be constructive dreams, rather than mere flights of fancy.”