There is one thing you can never take away from me, and that is my freedom to choose how I will react to whatever you do to me.

If you choose to react positively rather than negatively to the hurts of life, you can turn your scars into stars.

A student from a wealthy family barely made it through Harrow, one of the most famous English boarding schools. His family wanted him to attend a highly prestigious university after graduation, but he needed three private tutors before he could even move to the next academic level.

There are many late bloomers. If you have courage and refuse to be discouraged, even if you come in second again and again, one day you may end up being Number One. But if you lack courage, you will quit, and you may never succeed. You may be surprised to learn the name of that student—Winston Churchill, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

If you do not have the courage to face failure, you will most likely turn around, go home, and accomplish nothing. The truth is, when you think you have failed, you have no idea what your bucket of water may have accomplished. God often uses ordinary people who think they are failures but never give up. They are the ones who make the world go round.

“All my life, I kept waiting for a miracle to happen. The miracle happened only when I became the magician of my own life.”