“In the last years of my drinking, I truly wanted to stop. But I believed you couldn’t have a business lunch with a client without drinking. Celebrate the holidays without fine spirits? Life would be mighty grim without alcohol.”
The worst ain’t so bad when it finally happens…not half as bad as you think it will be before it happens.
— The Treasure of Sierra Madre
Yes, there is a substitute, and it is vastly more than that. It is a fellowship in Alcoholics Anonymous. There you will find release from care, boredom and worry. Your imagination will be fired. Life will mean something at last. The most satisfactory years of your existence lie ahead.
— Page 152 Alcoholics Anonymous
