Big Book Daily

I told myself it was because of fate, because everyone was against me, because things weren’t going well. I sometimes thought that God did not exist. #Alcoholism #BigBook

I still go to meetings, because I like to go. I meet the people that I like to talk to. Another reason that I go is that I’m still #grateful for the good years that I’ve had. #AA #BigBook

I was willing to admit to myself that I had hit bottom, that I had gotten hold of something that I didn’t know how to handle by myself. #Powerless #Step1 #AA

These minutes and sometimes hours spent in self-examination are bound to make all the other hours of our day better and happier. #AA #12and12

There will be those who ought to be dealt with just as soon as we become reasonably confident that we can maintain our #sobriety. #Amends #Step9

This attitude, of course, is the end result of purposeful forgetting. It is an attitude which can only be changed by a deep and honest search of our motives and actions. #Alcoholism #12and12

When we were frustrated, even in part, we drank for oblivion. Never was there enough of what we thought we wanted. #Alcoholism #AA

Delay is dangerous, and rebellion may be fatal. This is the exact point at which we abandon limited objectives, and move toward God’s will for us. #HigherPower #AA

It is plain for everybody to see that each sober #AA member has been granted a release from this very obstinate and potentially fatal obsession. #Recovery

As the pain subsides, a healing tranquility takes its place. And when #humility and #serenity are so combined, something else of great moment is apt to occur. #Recovery

No one ought to say the #AA program requires no willpower; here is one place you may require all you’ve got. #12and12

Another great dividend we may expect from confiding our defects to another human being is #humility, a word often misunderstood. #12and12

We loaf and procrastinate, or at best work grudgingly and under half steam. These fears are the termites that ceaselessly devour the foundations of whatever sort of life we try to build. #Alcoholism #AA

Human beings are never quite alike, so each of us, when making an inventory, will need to determine what his individual character defects are. #AA #Step4

By discovering what our emotional deformities are, we can move toward their correction. Without a willing and persistent effort to do this, there can be little #sobriety or contentment for us. #12Steps #Recovery

Every man and woman who has joined #AA and intends to stick has, without realizing it, made a beginning on #Step3.

The effectiveness of the whole #AA program will rest upon how well and earnestly we have tried to come to “a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of God as we understood Him.” #HigherPower

For an hour, the two friends told him about their drinking experiences. Over and over, they would say: “That’s me. That’s me. I drink like that.” #Sponsor #AA

We have three little mottoes which are apropos. Here they are: First Things First Live and Let Live Easy Does It. #AA #12Steps

We sit in #AA meetings and listen, not only to receive something ourselves, but to give the reassurance and support which our presence can bring. #Recovery