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... happy.
BB
Working With Others, p.96
To spend too much time on any one situation is to deny some other alcoholic an opportunity to live and be
happy.
2.
... happy.
BB
To Wives, p.117
If you and your husband find
a solution for the pressing problem of drink you are, of course, going to be very happy.
3.
... happy.
BB
A Vision For You, p.156
4.
... happy.
BB
Doctor Bob's Nightmare, p.178
5.
... happy.
BB
Acceptance, p.417
Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay
sober; unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot be happy.
6.
... happy.
12&12
Step Two, p.29
7.
... happy.
12&12
Step Seven, p.70
Nearly all A.A.'s have found, too, that unless they develop much more of this precious quality than may be required
just for sobriety, they still haven't much chance of becoming truly happy.
8.
... happy.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.124
Still more wonderful is the feeling
that we do not have to be specially distinguished among our
fellows in order to be useful and profoundly happy.
9.
... happy about
his sobriety.
BB
A Vision For You, p.152
10.
... happy again.
12&12
Step Twelve, pp.118-119
11.
... happy and
be free to concentrate on ...
12&12
Step Seven, p.71
12.
... happy and
effective living for many, alcoholic ...
12&12
Foreword, p.16
13.
... happy and
purposeful lives may be built.
12&12
Step One, p.21
Our admissions of personal powerlessness
finally turn out to be firm bedrock upon which happy and purposeful lives may be built.
14.
... happy and
secure ourselves.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.115
Where people had temporarily let us run their lives as though they were still children, we had felt very happy and secure ourselves.
15.
... happy and
useful living.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.114
16.
... happy business
career.
BB
More About Alcoholism, p.32
An exceptional man, he remained bone dry for twenty-five years and retired at the age of fifty-five, after a successful and happy business career.
17.
... happy day
may not arrive.
BB
There Is A Solution, p.23
18.
... Happy Destiny.
BB
A Vision For You, p.164
We shall be with you in the Fellowship of the Spirit,
and you will surely meet some of us as you trudge the
Road of Happy Destiny.
19.
... happy evenings
together chatting and drinking before ...
BB
To Wives, p.110
20.
... happy family.
12&12
Tradition Ten, p.177
Maybe this sounds as though the alcoholics in A.A. had suddenly gone peaceable, and become one great big happy family.
21.
... happy family
life.
12&12
Step Four, p.44
22.
... happy homes.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.117
23.
... happy in
our A.A. work.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.112
24.
... happy in
their release, and constantly thinking ...
BB
A Vision For You, p.159
Seeing much of each other, scarce an evening passed that someone's home did not shelter a little gathering of men and women, happy in their release, and constantly thinking how
they might present their discovery to some newcomer.
25.
... happy, joyous,
and free.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.133
26.
... happy life.'
12&12
Tradition Five, p.152
27.
... happy occasion,
try to increase the pleasure ...
BB
Working With Others, p.102
If it is a happy occasion,
try to increase the pleasure of those there; if a
business occasion, go and attend to your business enthusiastically.
28.
... happy, respected,
and useful once more.
BB
A Vision For You, p.153
29.
... happy results
do follow.
12&12
Step Twelve, p.119
30.
... happy solution.
BB
To Wives, p.104
Among us are wives, relatives and friends whose problem has been solved, as well as some who have
not yet found a happy solution.
31.
... happy to
hear from you if we ...
BB
To Employers (Note), p.150
32.
... happy under
these conditions.
BB
To Wives, p.111
33.
... happy usefulness.
BB
The Family Afterward, p.130
We have found nothing incompatible between a
powerful spiritual experience and a life of sane and happy usefulness.
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