Best of the Grapevine Quotes

“Happiness happens when results exceed expectations.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, The Best of Grapevine

“So, for today, I have become an agnostic, who occasionally experiences violent swings toward faith.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, The Best of Grapevine

“Most of us need some significance and importance in the eyes of others. We must have some meaning, be it only to one other person.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, The Best of Grapevine

“At long last, you have come to realize that service to others is all you have to offer in this life!”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, The Best of Grapevine

“What Is Acceptance? by Bill W. March 1962”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, The Best of Grapevine

“Today’s disappointment, viewed six months hence, may turn out to be one of the best breaks we ever got. And at the proper time, our own grateful hindsight will let us see the workings of God’s unerring foresight.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, The Best of Grapevine

“We practice readiness to learn—humility and teachability—the state of seeking and receptivity.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, The Best of Grapevine

“The helpful formula therefore is: spiritus contra spiritum.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, The Best of Grapevine

“William James’s The Varieties of Religious Experience. This book gave me the realization that most conversion experiences, whatever their variety, do have a common denominator of ego collapse at depth.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, The Best of Grapevine

“We make mistakes; we admit them; we try to clean up the mess we made; and we go on.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, The Best of Grapevine

“This hope is the priceless ingredient for recovery.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, The Best of Grapevine

“We no longer want to be argumentative and full of self-pity. Somehow, we slowly but surely cut loose from this sort of thing. It is time-consuming, it is destructive, it could lead to “stinking thinking.” It is not the way we want to live anymore, and we do something constructive about it.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, The Best of Grapevine

“The 24-hour plan is a discipline whose yield is freedom.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, The Best of Grapevine

“We must not shrink at anything.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, The Best of Grapevine

“Zen teaches the release of nothingness. A famous series of pictures designed to show growth in man’s nature ends with a circle enclosed in a square. The circle depicts man in a state of nothingness; the square represents the framework of limitations man must learn to live within. In this blank state, “Nothing is easy, nothing hard,” and so Zen, too, has linked nothingness, humbleness, and grace.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, The Best of Grapevine

“Truly I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, The Best of Grapevine

“Many people think they’re emancipated when, in reality, they’re only unbuttoned.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, The Best of Grapevine

“Commoner etches a disturbing picture of human technology, which provides power without purpose, means but no meaning.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, The Best of Grapevine

“This begins with release from our compulsion to drink and, through our use of the Twelve Steps, gradually moves into growing freedom from fear, depression, anxiety, and the overwhelming self-concern that characterized life before AA.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, The Best of Grapevine

“The word “heal” means “make whole.”
― Alcoholics Anonymous, The Best of Grapevine