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I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
--Anne Frank


We don't find the rewards of today by searching through our misfortunes. Pausing to seek out something good for everything we find bad is a step in the right direction. We may find the good outweighs the bad.


But how much more chance we will have of living a happy day if we skip over our setbacks and concentrate as much as we can on what is going well. It is smarter to look for diamonds in a diamond mine than in a garbage dump.


Let us discard our failures, using only what we have learned from them to achieve success. Looking back at missed opportunities will make it impossible for us to recognize new chances to enjoy life to the fullest. Looking only for beauty is a beautiful thing in itself.


What beauty can I see around me right now?



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Man said: If I lie I have to face a lie detector.
Woman said: You mean a Polygraph test?
Man answered: No, my sponsor!


Drunk classic for sober people:


There was an alcoholic woman in my home town who, in the course of her drinking, married four times: a millionaire, a magician, a minister, and finally an undertaker. That's one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, and four to go!

Sober fact:

If we went back to drinking or using, we'd be starting where we left off -- at the bottom



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"Faith without works was dead, he said. And how appallingly true for
the alcoholic! For if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his
spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he could
not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead. If he did not
work, he would surely drink again, and if he drank, he would surely
die. Then faith would be dead indeed. With us it is just like that."

~Alcoholics Anonymous, 4th Edition, Bill's Story, pg. 14~


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