I have a little theory that I'd like to air here, if I may. What is it that you think makes you magicians?" More silence. Fogg was well into rhetorical-question territory now anyway. He spoke more softly. "Is it because you are intelligent? Is it because you are brave and good? Is is because you're special? Maybe. Who knows. But I'll tell you something: I think you're magicians because you're unhappy. A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that stuff in your chest was? A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength. Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you. Lev Grossman
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When you feel that you are unlucky, unlucky with everything that is happening to you, then you will become unlucky in your thoughts. This is something very important, because when you think “unlucky” it is like having the power of the Universe on your side. You will be able to attract any positive things with this power. When you think “powerful”, it means that you will be able to do anything in the whole world.

But the most important thing about this power, is that you can always control it. It’s always there for your use, but with this ability, you will never lose it.

Source: The Magicians

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