From the books ... Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)
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... hard.
BB p.10,
Bill's Story
2.
... hard.
BB p.12,
Bill's Story
3.
... hard.
BB p.146,
To Employers
4.
... hard and
failed, we may chalk that ...
12&12 p.93,
Step Ten
Even when we have tried hard and failed, we may chalk that up as one of the greatest credits of all.
5.
... hard-and-fast lines
that we have drawn.
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
Looking again at those defects we are still unwilling to give up, we ought to erase the hard-and-fast lines that we have drawn.
6.
... hard and
have a knack of getting ...
BB p.140,
To Employers
7.
... hard and
they play hard.
BB p.146,
To Employers
8.
... hard at
the elimination of the worst ...
12&12 p.50,
Step Four
By now the newcomer has probably arrived at the following conclusions: that his character defects, representing instincts gone astray, have been the primary cause of his drinking and his failure
at life; that unless he is
now willing to work hard at the elimination of the worst
of these defects, both sobriety and peace of mind will still elude him; that all the
faulty foundation of
his life will have to be torn out and built anew on bedrock.
9.
... hard drinker.
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
10.
... hard drinker,
a moderate drinker or a ...
BB p.139,
To Employers
Whether you are a hard drinker, a moderate drinker or a teetotaler,
you may have some pretty strong opinions, perhaps prejudices.
11.
... hard drinker;
but at some stage of ...
BB p.21,
There Is A Solution
He may start off as a moderate drinker; he may
or may not become a continuous hard drinker; but at some stage of
his drinking career he
begins to lose all control of his liquor consumption, once he starts to drink.
12.
... hard drinkers
ought to slow down, and ...
12&12 p.157,
Tradition Six
They wanted to say that liquor should be enjoyed,
not misused; hard drinkers ought to slow down, and problem drinkers -- alcoholics -- should not drink at all.
13.
... hard drinking
have been repaired in four.
BB p.156,
A Vision For You
As we shall see, he now means a great deal to his community, and the major liabilities of thirty years of hard drinking have been repaired in four.
14.
... hard, either.
12&12 p.26,
Step Two
15.
... hard enough
and long enough to drink ...
BB p.31,
More About Alcoholism
16.
... hard, even
impossible.
12&12 p.35,
Step Three
17.
... hard feeling
and controversy.
BB p.154,
A Vision For You
18.
... hard feeling
toward him.
BB p.142,
To Employers
19.
... hard is
a heartbreaking riddle.
12&12 p.32,
Step Two
To clergymen, doctors,
friends, and families,
the alcoholic who means
well and tries hard is a heartbreaking riddle.
20.
... hard knocks
to learn this truth: Job ...
BB p.98,
Working With Others
Some of us have taken very
hard knocks to learn this truth: Job or no job
-- wife or no wife -- we simply do not stop drinking so long as we place dependence upon other people ahead of dependence on God.
21.
... hard lesson
that overdependence upon people is ...
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
We had refused to learn
the very hard lesson that overdependence upon people is unsuccessful
because all people are fallible, and even the best of them will sometimes let us down, especially when our
demands for attention
become unreasonable.
22.
... hard liquor
than in former years.
BB p.174,
Doctor Bob's Nightmare
This had little effect
however for I kept on drinking and used a great deal more hard liquor than in former years.
23.
... hard on
ourself, but always considerate of ...
BB p.74,
Into Action
24.
... hard on
the hopelessness of the drunk's ...
12&12 p.152,
Tradition Five
25.
... hard or
times were good.
12&12 p.47,
Step Four
26.
... hard question,
but practically speaking, it isn't.
12&12 p.68,
Step Six
27.
... hard stuff."
BB p.20,
There Is A Solution
28.
... hard terms
with those who seek Him.
BB p.46,
We Agnostics
29.
... hard thought.
BB p.6,
Bill's Story
That was a hard thought.
30.
... hard times
which will befall you and ...
BB p.116,
To Wives
You may be afraid your husband will lose his position; you are thinking of the disgrace
and hard times which will befall you and the children.
31.
... hard to
bear.
12&12 p.115,
Step Twelve
32.
... hard to
do.
12&12 p.81,
Step Eight
33.
... hard to
find twoscore of sure recoveries ...
12&12 p.17,
Foreword
34.
... hard to
live with.
12&12 p.84,
Step Nine
35.
... hard to
match.
12&12 p.182,
Tradition Eleven
Ever since, these friends
have reported A.A. with an
enthusiasm which the most ardent members would find hard to match.
36.
... hard to
re-establish friendly relations with his ...
BB p.134,
The Family Afterward
37.
... hard to
see and understand.
12&12 p.94,
Step Ten
38.
... hard to
seek them out.
12&12 p.120,
Step Twelve
39.
... hard to
swallow.
BB p.42,
More About Alcoholism
Though I had been only a nominal churchman, their
proposals were not, intellectually, hard to
swallow.
40.
... hard to
take.
12&12 p.111,
Step Twelve
Here again we are presented with the temptation to overmanage things, and sometimes this results in
rebuffs and other consequences which are hard to take.
41.
... hard to
understand.
12&12 p.106,
Step Twelve
42.
... hard up.
12&12 p.136,
Tradition Two
43.
... hard up
just then; the groups weren't ...
12&12 p.164,
Tradition Seven
The Foundation was really hard up just then; the groups weren't sending in enough for the support of the office; we
had been tossing in all the book income and even that hadn't been enough.
44.
... hard up
you are, Bill.
12&12 p.137,
Tradition Two
45.
... hard way.
12&12 p.88,
Step Ten
46.
... hard way.
BB p.121,
To Wives
47.
... hard with
many alcoholics on the theory ...
BB xvi,
Foreword to Second Edition
Prior to his journey to Akron, the broker had worked hard with many alcoholics on the theory that only an alcoholic could help an alcoholic, but he had succeeded only in keeping
sober himself.
48.
... hard with
no better motive than to ...
12&12 p.67,
Step Six
And how often we work hard with no better motive than to be secure and slothful later on -- only we call that
"retiring."
49.
... hard work
of a simple matter.
BB p.40,
More About Alcoholism
I had no trouble refusing drinks, and began to wonder if I had not
been making too hard work of a simple matter.
50.
... hard work
to be restored financially, but ...
BB p.123,
The Family Afterward
Father knows he is to blame; it may take him many seasons of hard work to be restored financially,
but he shouldn't be reproached.
51.
... hard you
try.
BB p.111,
To Wives
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