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From the books  ...  Alcoholics Anonymous (Big Book) and Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions (12 & 12)

miserably
miserly
misers
MISERY   occurs   15 times 8 in BB  •  7 in 12&12 Definition in Merriam-Webster Online
misfortune
misfortunes
misgiving

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1.
  ... misery.  BB The Family Afterward, p.133
But it is clear that we made our own misery.


2.
  ... misery.  12&12 Step Four, p.54
Whatever the defects, they have finally ambushed us into alcoholism and misery.


3.
  ... misery.  12&12 Step Six, p.67
Nearly anyone could submit a good list of such defects as these, and few of us would seriously think of giving them up, at least until they cause us excessive misery.


4.
  ... misery.  12&12 Tradition Three, p.141
At last experience taught us that to take away any alcoholic's full chance was sometimes to pronounce his death sentence, and often to condemn him to endless misery.


5.
  ... misery, and a strong desire to retaliate ...  12&12 Step Eight, p.80
If our sex conduct is selfish, we may excite jealousy, misery, and a strong desire to retaliate in kind.


6.
  ... misery and depression, we couldn't make a ...  BB We Agnostics, p.52
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?


7.
  ... misery and sobriety, and often the difference ...  BB Appendix I, The A.A. Tradition, p.561
To those now in its fold, Alcoholics Anonymous has made the difference between misery and sobriety, and often the difference between life and death.


8.
  ... misery, bad repute and hopelessness?  BB A Vision For You, p.153
How can they rise out of such misery, bad repute and hopelessness?


9.
  ... misery, but if trouble comes, cheerfully capitalize ...  BB The Family Afterward, p.133
Avoid then, the deliberate manufacture of misery, but if trouble comes, cheerfully capitalize it as an opportunity to demonstrate His omnipotence.


10.
  ... misery for them.  BB The Family Afterward, p.124
With it you can avert death and misery for them.


11.
  ... misery of war?  12&12 Step Three, p.38
Would they be able to take discipline, stand up under fire, and endure the monotony and misery of war?


12.
  ... misery transformed by humility.  12&12 Contents (Step Seven), p.7
Failure and misery transformed by humility.


13.
  ... misery transformed by humility into priceless assets.  12&12 Step Seven, p.75
Everywhere we saw failure and misery transformed by humility into priceless assets.


14.
  ... misery which flows through that institution.  BB A Vision For You, p.163
Arrangements were also made with the chief psychiatrist of a large public hospital to select still others from the stream of misery which flows through that institution.


15.
  ... misery which has not been overcome among ...  BB Bill's Story, p.15
There is scarcely any form of trouble and misery which has not been overcome among us.


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