"I used to say I came from a dysfunctional family but I'm it. The rest of my family was fine."
"I truly believe that alcoholism is a feeling illness."
"I used to say I came from a dysfunctional family but I'm it. The rest of my family was fine."
"I truly believe that alcoholism is a feeling illness."
"I used to have no emotions. Now have them all."
"You can be a victim or a victor. The choice is up to you."
"Things don't get easier but dealing with them does."
"As long as you know what you know, you'll never know. But when you begin to not do what we tell you not to do and to do what we tell you to do, then you will begin to know that you don't know then you'll begin to know."
"The Steps were designed to heal not to hurt."
"We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn't control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldn't make a living, we had a feeling of uselessness, we were full of fear, we were unhappy, we couldn't seem to be of real help to other people ..."
"But it is from our twisted relations with family, friends, and society at large that many of us have suffered the most. We have been especially stupid and stubborn about them. The primary fact that we fail to recognize is our total inability to form a true partnership with another human being. Our egomania digs two disastrous pitfalls. Either we insist upon dominating the people we know, or we depend upon them far too much."
"My dad is not an alcoholic but my dad is a selfish, self-centered guy. My dad's focused on how he feels and how much fun he's having. I mean, gosh, who among us isn't? ...My dad saw a pretty girl when I was two - chased after her. He saw another pretty girl when my son was six - chased after her. My dad is just a guy that wants to enjoy his life and he makes mistakes along the way and people get hurt. He couldn't have done any different! That was his N-A-T-U-R-E! I was mad at him for NOT doing something he was not capable of doing."
"Stick with the winners? We are all winners!"
"Life is full of potholes but you got to learn to steer around them but Margie tried to plow right through them."
"I didn't stop believing in God, I just got afraid of His Will and shut the door on him."
"Above all, before I can be any or even one of these things, I must always remember first that I am an alcoholic and that my life became unmanageable."