There was an insistent yearning to enjoy life as we once did and a heartbreaking obsession that some new miracle of control would enable us to do it. We enjoy moments in which there is something like real peace of mind. Most of them give freely of themselves, that their fellows may enjoy sound minds and bodies. We absolutely insist on enjoying life.

We A.A.'s are active folk, enjoying the satisfactions of dealing with the realities of life, usually for the first time in our lives, and strenuously trying to help the next alcoholic who comes along.

Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)