"living" in the Big Book

Living modestly, my wife and I saved $1,000.

By the following spring we were living in our accustomed style.

Despite the living example of my friend there remained in me the vestiges of my old prejudice.

My friend promised when these things were done I would enter upon a new relationship with my Creator; that I would have the elements of a way of living which answered all my problems.

It is a design for living that works in rough going.

The joy of living we really have, even under pressure and difficulty.

But we saw that it really worked in others, and we had come to believe in the hopelessness and futility of life as we had been living it.

A new life has been given us or, if you prefer, “a design for living’’ that really works.

If what we have learned and felt and seen means anything at all, it means that all of us, whatever our race, creed, or color are the children of a living Creator with whom we may form a relationship upon simple and understandable terms as soon as we are willing and honest enough to try.

been brought into a way of living infinitely more satisfying and, I hope, more useful than the life I lived before.

They flatly declare that since they have come to believe in a Power greater than themselves, to take a certain attitude toward that Power, and to do certain simple things, there has been a revolutionary change in their way of living and thinking.

Leaving aside the drink question, they tell why living was so unsatisfactory.

We were having trouble with personal relationships, we couldn’t control our emotional natures, we were a prey to misery and depression, we couldn’t make a living, we had a feeling of uselessness, we were full of fear, we were unhappy, we couldn’t seem to be of real help to other people— was not a basic solution of these bedevilments more important than whether we should see newsreels of lunar flight?

In one form or another we had been living by faith and little else.

They are naturally incapable of grasping and developing a manner of living which demands rigorous honesty.

Our design for living is not a one-way street.

We vigorously commenced this way of living as we cleaned up the past.

When your prospect has made such reparation as he can to his family, and has thoroughly explained to them the new principles by which he is living, he should proceed to put those principles into action at home.

When the time for living together has come, it will be apparent to both parties.

Perhaps your husband has been living in that strange world of alcoholism where everything is distorted and exaggerated.

It is probably true that you and your husband have been living too much alone, for drinking many times isolates the wife of an alcoholic.

A doctor said to us, “Years of living with an alcoholic is almost sure to make any wife or child neurotic.

We think that such a view is selfcentered and in direct conflict with the new way of living.

We are convinced that a spiritual mode of living is a most powerful health restorative.

This may hang on for months, long after their mother has accepted dad’s new way of living and thinking.

They have a new attitude, and they have been saved from a living death.

They experienced a few distressing failures, but in those cases they made an effort to bring the man’s family into a spiritual way of living, thus relieving much worry and suffering.

We know of an A.A. member who was living in a large community.