Quotes - Resentments

Alcoholics Anonymous, Fourth Edition

Chapter 5 - How It Works

Page 66

It is plain that a life which includes deep resentment
leads only to futility and unhappiness. To the precise
extent that we permit these, do we squander the hours
that might have been worth while. But with the alco-
holic, whose hope is the maintenance and growth of a
spiritual experience, this business of resentment is in-
finitely grave. We found that it is fatal. For when
harboring such feelings we shut ourselves off from the
sunlight of the Spirit. The insanity of alcohol returns
and we drink again. And with us, to drink is to die.