From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... happy.
12&12 p.29,
Step Two
2.
... happy.
12&12 p.70,
Step Seven
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.
3.
... happy.
12&12 p.124,
Step Twelve
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.
4.
... happy.
BB p.417(449),
Acceptance
Until I could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay sober; unless I accept life completely on life's terms, I cannot be happy.
5.
... happy.
BB p.96,
Working With Others
To spend too much time on any one situation is to deny some other alcoholic an opportunity to live and be
happy.
6.
... happy.
BB p.117,
To Wives
If you and your husband find a solution for the pressing problem of drink you are, of course, going to be very happy.
7.
... happy.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
8.
... happy.
BB p.178,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
9.
... happy about
his sobriety.
BB p.152,
A Vision For You
10.
... happy again.
12&12 p.119,
Step Twelve
11.
... happy and
be free to concentrate on ...
12&12 p.71,
Step Seven
12.
... happy and
effective living for many, alcoholic ...
12&12 p.16,
Foreword
13.
... happy and
purposeful lives may be built.
12&12 p.21,
Step One
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 p.115,
Step Twelve
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 p.114,
Step Twelve
16.
... happy business
career.
BB p.32,
More About Alcoholism
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 p.23,
There Is A Solution
18.
... Happy Destiny.
BB p.164,
A Vision For You
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 p.110,
To Wives
20.
... happy family.
12&12 p.177,
Tradition Ten
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 p.44,
Step Four
22.
... happy homes.
12&12 p.117,
Step Twelve
23.
... happy in
our A.A. work.
12&12 p.112,
Step Twelve
24.
... happy in
their release, and constantly thinking ...
BB p.159,
A Vision For You
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 p.133,
The Family Afterward
26.
... happy life.'
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
27.
... happy occasion,
try to increase the pleasure ...
BB p.102,
Working With Others
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 p.153,
A Vision For You
29.
... happy results
do follow.
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
30.
... happy solution.
BB p.104,
To Wives
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 p.150,
To Employers (Note)
32.
... happy under
these conditions.
BB p.111,
To Wives
33.
... happy usefulness.
BB p.130,
The Family Afterward
We have found nothing incompatible between a
powerful spiritual experience and a life of sane and happy usefulness.
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