TOPICS 4/16/2026
DAILY REFLECTIONS
1) If we were to live, we had to be free of anger. The grouch and the brainstorm were not for us. They may be the dubious luxury of normal men, but for alcoholics these things are poison.
-ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, p. 66
AS BILL SEES IT, p. 61
2) The problem of resolving fear has two aspects. We shall have to try for all the freedom from fear that is possible for us to attain. Then we shall need to find both the courage and the grace to deal constructively with whatever fears remain.
BIG BOOK QUOTE
3) More than most people, the alcoholic leads a double life. He’s very much the actor. To the outer world, he presents his stage character. This is the one he likes his fellows to see. He wants to enjoy a certain reputation, but knows in his heart he doesn’t deserve it.
4) “Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree, and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and it’s not easy.”
-Aristotle