"I go married every 10 years."
"I go married every 10 years."
"You may not get all your marbles back, but you will get enough back to play the game."
"I have to stay recollected."
"My go to reaction from high school through college up until coming into Alcoholics Anonymous was to flip it ...to go off the edge, to kamikaze into life....I basically wanted other people to take care of me...Super scared."
"I didn't want to get drunk all the time. I just wanted to get right."
"I was a designer one month; a car salesman the next."
"I was dumped into the world, an Irish-Catholic and a victim, of course, and another alcoholic was launched out into the universe."
"Dear Lord, some of us need to sing a new song. Will You teach us the words? Help us to sing in harmony with the Holy Spirit so our song will delight Your heart."
"It all started with an admission that, in and of myself, I am not enough. This horrible, ego deflating, at the time, seemingly humiliating admission that would start me on a journey to freedom, and strength and courage."
"Our leaders are but twisted servants. They do not govern."
"But I had to step aside and cast aside everything that was good and clean and decent in my life because it interfered with my drinking.
I blasted through the lives of everyone I touched and you don't know what it means to me today to sit over there in that coffee room and touch your life gently and with love."