"All I wanted to do was kill him."
"All I wanted to do was kill him."
"The Atlanta Roundup has not always been Al-Anon friendly but it is Al-Anon friendly today."
"I am of the theory that when it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck."
"I stand before you a reformed husband beater. I have been kicked out of more bars never having had a drink for attacking my husband."
"Whatever happens today is none of my business."
"The world is much bigger than my family of origin and I have a home sweet home in the Fellowship."
"Is your soul dry from desolation, wrinkled from worry, itchy from alcoholic irritation, rough from resentments?
Try Oil of Al-Anon."
"For me to be quiet for four hours is almost an act of God."
"Our Father which art in heaven, how'd you know my name?"
"I was overly responsible."
"It says in the Bible that 'This, too, shall pass.' It doesn't say, 'This to shall stay'."
"All my knowledge of cancer will not keep me from contracting it."
"... cause some are sicker than others."
"I always thought that if I could be free then I would be happy but, you know, the Al-Anon Program has taught me how to be free...it's an inside job and it doesn't matter that much what 'they' say or 'they' do, it's all inside. And when we have the ability to have some answers in this program, then we're not in bondage anymore. I found, for me, that I was dependent as long as I didn't have answers."
"Would I stand on the seashore and, like King Canute of the ancient legend, try to command the tides? It is just as fruitless to try to control the alcoholic. Yet this is what I would be doing in attempting to force sobriety by my will-power."