> "In some circumstances we have gone out deliberately to get drunk,
> feeling ourselves justified by nervousness, anger, worry,
> depression, jealousy or the like. But even in this type of beginning
> we are obliged to admit that our justification for a spree was
> insanely insufficient in the light of what always happened. We now
> see that when we began to drink deliberately, instead or casually,
> there was little serious or effective thought during the period of
> premeditation of what the terrific consequences might be."
>
> ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, More About Alcoholism, pg. 37~
>

> "One of the many doctors who had the opportunity of reading this
> book in manuscript form told us that the use of sweets was often
> helpful, of course depending upon a doctor's advice. He thought all
> alcoholics should constantly have chocolate available for its quick
> energy value at times of fatigue. He added that occasionally in the
> night a vague craving arose which would be satisfied by candy. Many
> of us have noticed a tendency to eat sweets and have found this
> practice beneficial."
>
> ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, The Family Afterward, pg. 133~
>

> "One of the many doctors who had the opportunity of reading this
> book in manuscript form told us that the use of sweets was often
> helpful, of course depending upon a doctor's advice. He thought all
> alcoholics should constantly have chocolate available for its quick
> energy value at times of fatigue. He added that occasionally in the
> night a vague craving arose which would be satisfied by candy. Many
> of us have noticed a tendency to eat sweets and have found this
> practice beneficial."
>
> ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, The Family Afterward, pg. 133~
>

> "If circumstances warrant, we ask our wives or friends to join us in
> morning meditation. If we belong to a religious denomination which
> requires a definite morning devotion, we attend to that also. If not
> members of religious bodies, we sometimes select and memorize a few
> set prayers which emphasize the principles we have been discussing.
> There are many helpful books also."
>
> ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg. 87~
>
>

> "Whatever our ideal turns out to be, we must be willing to grow
> toward it. We must be willing to make amends where we have done
> harm, provided that we do not bring about still more harm in so
> doing."
>
> ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 69~
>
>

> "Everybody nowadays, believes in scores of assumptions for which
> there is good evidence, but no perfect visual proof. And does not
> science demonstrate that visual proof is the weakest proof? It is
> being constantly revealed, as mankind studies the material world,
> that outward appearances are not inward reality at all."
>
> ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, We Agnostics, pg. 48~
>

> "Our real purpose is to fit ourselves to be of maximum service to God
> and the people about us."
>
> ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg. 77~
>
>

> "When ready, we say something like this: 'My Creator, I am now
> willing that you should have all of me, good and bad. I pray that you
> now remove from me every single defect of character which stands in
> the way of my usefulness to you and my fellows. Grant me strength, as
> I go out from here, to do your bidding. Amen.' We have then
> completed Step Seven."
>
> ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg. 76~
>

> "Yes, there is a long period of reconstruction ahead. We must take
> the lead. A remorseful mumbling that we are sorry won't fill the bill
> at all. We ought to sit down with the family and frankly analyze the
> past as we now see it, being very careful not to criticize them.
> Their defects may be glaring, but the chances are that our own
> actions are partly responsible. So we clean house with the family,
> asking each morning in meditation that our Creator show us the way of
> patience, tolerance, kindliness and love."
>
> ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg. 83~
>

> "Practical experience shows that nothing will so much insure immunity
> from drinking as intensive work with other alcoholics."
>
> ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Working With Others, pg. 89~
>

> "Upon therapy for the alcoholic himself, we surely have no monopoly.
> Yet is is our great hope that all those who have as yet found no
> answer may begin to find one in the pages of this book and will
> presently join us on the high road to a new freedom."
>
> ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Foreword To Second Edition, pg.
> xxi~
>

> "God alone can judge our sex situation. Counsel with persons is often
> desirable, but we let God be the final judge. We realize that some
> people are as fanatical about sex as others are loose. We avoid
> hysterical thinking or advice."
>
> ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, How It Works, pg. 69~
>

> "We constantly remind ourselves we are no longer running the show,
> humbly saying to ourselves many times each day "Thy will be done." We
> are then in much less danger of excitement, fear, anger, worry, self-
> pity, or foolish decisions. We become much more efficient. We do
> not tire so easily, for we are not burning up energy foolishly as we
> did when we were trying to arrange life to suit ourselves."
>
> ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg. 87~
>

> "Now we go out to our fellows and repair the damage done in the
> past. We attempt to sweep away the debris which has accumulated out
> of our effort to live on self-will and run the show ourselves. If we
> haven't the will to do this, we ask until it comes. Remember it was
> agreed at the beginning we would go to any lengths for victory over
> alcohol."
>
> ~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Into Action, pg.76~
>

"Cling to the thought that, in God's hands, the dark past is the
greatest possession you have-the key to life and happiness for
others. With it you can avert death and misery for them."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, The Family Afterward, pg. 124~