“ AA purports to be open to anyone, as it is stated in Tradition Tree, The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking, but it isn't open to everyone. It's open only to those who are… Chris Prentiss
“ You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to… Chris Prentiss
“ I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other. Anne Bronte
“ Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way. Mariel Hemingway
“ People who are dependent are merely using alcohol as a crutch to get through the day. Yet doctors and scientists are still treating alcoholism as if it is the problem, when it has nothing to do with t… Chris Prentiss
“ I carried a bravado about my drinking like I was a hero of debauchery. But on that Christmas Day, I felt like shit. I had a vague realisation that I was just trying to keep up with some version of mys… Nadia Bolz-Weber
“ The Big Book’s chapter We Agnostics draws a line in the sand: God either is or He isn’t. What was our choice to be (Alcoholics Anonymous, 53)? Nature abhors a vacuum and a state of nothing can’t exist… Joe C.
“ Drinking is something people do; it's not what you are. But when it becomes what you are, you need to think about becoming something else. Tim Cowlishaw
