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MajestyJo
03-01-2014, 07:05 AM
March 1

"If I want to be of some use to someone (my family, my employer, my community) then I can be a leader by becoming a servant. This is one of those crazy paradoxes we find all over the AA program: being a servant to be a leader."

Humbolt, Saskatchewan, February 1996
"I Wish You Well"
AA Grapevine

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MajestyJo
03-03-2014, 09:29 PM
March 2

"I started to understand that while I didn't believe in churches, I had to see that something or someone was working in my life that hadn't been there before."

Beginners' Book

Naples, Italy, January 1994
"Get With the Program"
Beginner's Book: Getting and Staying Sober in AA

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MajestyJo
03-03-2014, 09:41 PM
March 3

"Ever deepening humility, accompanied by an ever greater willingness to accept and to act upon clear obligations -- these are truly our touchstones for all growth in the life of the spirit."

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., January 1966
"The Guidance of AA's World Affairs"
The Language of the Heart

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MajestyJo
03-05-2014, 10:18 AM
March 4

"Alcoholics have short memories."

Beginners' Book

Paradise, Calif., October 2003
"'How It Works Works for Me"
Beginner's Book: Getting and Staying Sober in AA

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MajestyJo
03-06-2014, 05:21 PM
March 5

"I still don't have answers for all the eternal questions, like why bad things happen to good people, or why babies die. But I have found that life works better when I focus more on how I am contributing to God's world than musing about what he is or is not doing in mine."

Woodinville, Wash., November 2013
"The Scoop"
AA Grapevine

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MajestyJo
03-06-2014, 05:21 PM
March 6

"Today, my short version of the Third Step is this: Keep taking care of me, Lord, because I appreciate it now."

Berrien Springs, Mich., April 1991
"Dear God: Keep Coming Back"
AA Grapevine

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MajestyJo
03-07-2014, 10:54 AM
March 7

"AA gives us a Ph.D. in life and a black belt in common sense."

Beginners' Book

Keego Harbor, Mich., June 1998
"Paradoxes of Sobriety"
Beginner's Book: Getting and Staying Sober in AA

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MajestyJo
03-08-2014, 06:36 AM
March 8

"Great love is the sunlight of AA's tree of life."

Jackson, Miss., November 1964
"Let Go and Let God"
AA Grapevine

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MajestyJo
03-09-2014, 04:15 PM
March 9

"If there are challenges to be met today, I remember other days when what seemed impossible was made possible."

Beginners' Book

Huntington, W.V., August 2006
"Never Sober Today Before"
Beginner's Book: Getting and Staying Sober in AA

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As the old saying goes, "Put a tiger in your tank."

MajestyJo
03-11-2014, 10:56 AM
March 10

"Trial and error produces group experience, and out of corrected experience comes custom. When a customary way of doing things is definitely proved to be best, then that custom forms into AA Tradition."

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., January 1948
"Tradition Two"
The Language of the Heart

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MajestyJo
03-11-2014, 10:59 AM
March 11

"I have come to believe that my drinking insanity is only one form of the craziness to which we AAs are prone. I call it Insanity A. Insanity B is finding out what works for you -- and then not doing it."

Beginners' Book

Prague, Czechoslovakia, February 2005
"Insanity B"
Beginner's Book: Getting and Staying Sober in AA

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MajestyJo
03-13-2014, 07:36 AM
March 12

"Some days are harder than others, but I have been told a person is not measured by what she has achieved but by what she has overcome."

Toledo, Ohio, September 2008
"The Measure of Success"
AA Grapevine

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MajestyJo
03-13-2014, 07:39 AM
March 13

"Because of this program I am starting to love myself again. I still get urges to 'drink and drug' but I don't let them run my life. I value good friends today. I value my serenity, and I value life today."

Thornton, Penn., April 1993
"A Valuable Commodity"
AA Grapevine

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MajestyJo
03-15-2014, 04:51 AM
March 14

"My heart sings with each new day."

Cleveland, Ohio, February 1993
"Facing the Truth"
AA Grapevine

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MajestyJo
03-16-2014, 01:44 AM
March 15

"Each AA has been an individual who, because of his alcoholism, could seldom govern himself. Nor could any other human being govern the alcoholic's obsession to drink, his drive to have things his own way ... Yet we alcoholics can be led, we can be inspired."

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., January 1947
"Will AA Ever Have a Personal Government?"
The Language of the Heart

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MajestyJo
03-18-2014, 05:03 PM
March 16

"Life in contented sobriety seems to be a matter of looking at the reality of myself in my attitudes, actions, and character rather than trying to run away from it."

Tasmania, Australia, September 2008
"The Reality of Myself"
AA Grapevine

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MajestyJo
03-18-2014, 05:06 PM
March 17

"Surrender has nothing to do with giving up. It means to stop fighting."

Carrollton, Texas, February 1993
"The Gift of Sobriety"
AA Grapevine

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MajestyJo
03-18-2014, 05:12 PM
March 18

"Pain is one of our greatest teachers. Though I still find it difficult to accept today's pain and anxiety with any degree of serenity -- as those more advanced in the spiritual life seem able to do -- I can, if I try hard, give thanks for present pain nevertheless."

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., March 1962
"What Is Acceptance?"
The Language of the Heart

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MajestyJo
03-19-2014, 04:02 PM
March 19

"New people are the lifeblood of AA. I am eternally grateful to them. By extension I am, therefore, grateful to Tradition Three for making it possible for all who want what we have to come to AA."

Los Gatos, Calif., February 1993
"A Part of the Whole"
AA Grapevine

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MajestyJo
03-20-2014, 11:49 AM
March 20

"If you haven't been to a meeting for a while, come, and add to the mix ... we need you. Come for yourself, come for the Fellowship, come to celebrate sobriety, and come for the alcoholic who still suffers."

San Francisco, Calif., February 1993
"Torn Asunder"
AA Grapevine

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MajestyJo
03-21-2014, 05:02 PM
March 21

"We are losing all fear of those violent emotional storms which sometimes cross our alcoholic world; perhaps it bespeaks our confidence that every storm will be followed by a calm; a calm which is more understanding, more compassionate, more tolerant than any we ever knew before."

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., August 1946
"Who Is a Member of Alcoholics Anonymous?"
The Language of the Heart

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MajestyJo
03-22-2014, 03:38 PM
March 22

"In AA, we discover that it is impossible to give without receiving, or receive without giving."

North Hollywood, Calif., February 1993
"The Gift of Sobriety"
AA Grapevine

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MajestyJo
03-23-2014, 03:25 PM
March 23

"I can't imagine anything that would make me so mad, glad, or sad that I would want to go back to what I was before AA."

Napa, Calif., February 1993
"The Meaning of Success"
AA Grapevine

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MajestyJo
03-24-2014, 02:44 PM
March 24

"My emotional bottom came in sobriety ... I actually had to sit and feel all those feelings I had worked so hard to drown out with alcohol."

Beginners' Book

New York, N.Y., January 2006
"Attitude Adjustment"
Beginner's Book: Getting and Staying Sober in AA

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MajestyJo
03-25-2014, 02:07 PM
March 25

"I'm better able to love people when the storm of my judgmental mind settles, when I understand and empathize rather than criticize and condemn."

September 2008
"The Fine Art of Listening"
AA Grapevine

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MajestyJo
03-26-2014, 08:14 PM
March 26

"As AA grows, it is impossible to know everyone, but if I try to relate myself with just one other person, something will happen, something remarkable."

Marietta, Ohio, April 1993
"The Guy at the End of the Bar"
AA Grapevine

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MajestyJo
03-27-2014, 06:01 PM
March 27

"When we early AAs got our first glimmer of how spiritually prideful we could be, we coined this expression: 'Don't try to get too damned good by Thursday!'"

Best of Bill

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., June 1961
"Humility for Today"
The Best of Bill

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MajestyJo
03-29-2014, 02:09 PM
March 28

"One of the first insights Dr. Bob and I shared was that all true communication must be founded on mutual need. Never could we talk down to anyone, certainly not to a fellow alcoholic. We saw that each sponsor would have to humbly admit his own needs as clearly as those of his prospect."

AA Co-Founder, Bill W., July 1960
"The Language of the Heart"
The Language of the Heart

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MajestyJo
03-29-2014, 02:12 PM
March 29

"Until I was at my complete bottom, alcohol wasn't even my problem. But thankfully, when I did hit bottom, AA was not hard to find."

November 2013
"Why Not Tell the World?"
AA Grapevine

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MajestyJo
03-31-2014, 10:46 AM
March 30

"It was at my home group that I learned to trust the experiences of the early groups with meetings. We have a Traditions meeting once a month and when I was new and heard the Traditions read out loud, the experiences of the early AA meetings gave me the first notion that real people -- drunks like me -- started this program."

New York, N.Y., February 1990
"Out of the Hat"
AA Grapevine

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MajestyJo
03-31-2014, 10:48 AM
March 31

"If I am in pain, it may be beneficial to me if I am aware of those in even more pain ... The answer for my pain is in the Twelfth Step."

New York, N.Y., October 2006
"Gruff Love"
AA Grapevine

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