Paul Will
Paul Will
dream procrastination weather
The assumption of time is one of humanity's greatest follies. We tell ourselves that there's always tomorrow, when we can no more predict tomorrow than we can the weather. Procrastination is the thief of dreams.
regret companion tiresome
Regret is the most tiresome of companions.
writing choices important
The most important story we'll ever write in life is our own-not with ink, but with our daily choices.
feet path sometimes
To choose the path is to choose the destination, but sometimes it seems that the path is under our feet even before we know we're walking.
dream cities long
We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours.
lasts firsts last-words
From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.
promise dawn nightmare
...even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn.
heartache denial humans
Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.
tests who-we-are strange
There are moments, it would seem, that were created in cosmic theater where we are given strange and fantastic tests. In these times, we do not show who we are to God, for surely He must already know, but rather to ourselves.
stars regret believe
If the errors of my life have profited me one great truth it is this: believe. Believe in your destiny and the star from which it shines. Believe you have been sent from God as an arrow pulled from his own bow. It is the single universal trait which the great of this earth have all shared, while the shadows are fraught with ghosts who roam the winds with mournful wails of regret on their lips. Believe as if your life depended upon it, for indeed it does.
inspiring adversity successful
Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.
prayer giving-up drinking
As a boy I heard this story in church. A man was patching a pitched roof of a tall building when he began sliding off. As he neared the edge of the roof he prayed, "Save me, Lord, and I'll go to church every Sunday, I'll give up drinking, I'll be the best man this city has ever known." As he finished his prayer, a nail snagged onto his overalls and saved him. The man looked up to the sky and shouted, "Never mind, God. I took care of it myself." How true of us.
gratitude mistake focus
...for we are all amateurs at life, but if we do not focus too much on our mistakes, a miraculous picture emerges. And we learn that it's not the beauty of the image that warrants our gratitude--it's the chance to paint.
challenges succeed i-have-learned
I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.