"happy" in the Big Book

The tragic truth is that if the man be a real alcoholic, the happy day may not arrive.

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.

To spend too much time on any one situation is to deny some other alcoholic an opportunity to live and be happy.

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.

Among us are wives, relatives and friends whose problem has been solved, as well as some who have not yet found a happy solution.

You have passed happy evenings together chatting and drinking before your fire.

We know women who are unafraid, even happy under these conditions.

If you and your husband find a solution for the pressing problem of drink you are, of course, going to be very happy.

We have found nothing incompatible between a powerful spiritual experience and a life of sane and happy usefulness.

We are sure God wants us to be happy, joyous, and free.

I have enjoyed every moment spent in getting them straightened out.* * See Appendix VI—We shall be happy to hear from you if we can be of help.

He will presently try the old game again, for he isn’t happy about his sobriety.

It may seem incredible that these men are to become happy, respected, and useful once more.

At midnight he came home exhausted, but very happy.

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.

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.