Michael Bassey Johnson
453 quotes
"If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them."
"True friends are those who came into your life, saw the most negative part of you, but are not ready to leave you, no matter how contagious you are to them."
"Buy a gift for a dog, and you'll be amazed at the way it will dance and swerve its tail, but if don't have anything to offer to it, it won't even recognize your arrival; such are the attributes of fake friends."
"People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out."
"A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind."
"I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain."
"A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it."
"Let me lose everything on earth and the world beyond, but let me not lose what I'm craving for, let it be that i died on the way than retreating from getting it."
"I don't talk with everybody because i am not everybody, i am single."
"You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste."
"Don't show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you'll see is hate and jealousy, and you'll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you'll feel is regret."
"The more death, the more birth. People are entering, others are exiting. The cry of a baby, the mourning of others. When others cry, the other are laughing and making merry. The world is mingled with sadness, joy, happiness, anger, wealth, poverty, etc."
"Merry hearts are vulnerable to death, don't be over-joyed to the state of oblivion, lest the enemy poison your meal."
"Go higher and higher, until it becomes impossible to bring you down, I wanna use a microscope to locate you, don't even dream of coming down."
"Don't be indifferent about any random idea that occurs to you, because each and every idea is for a particular purpose. it may not be beneficial to you, but can be what others are craving for"
"When you paint your lips, eye lids, nails or whatever, to look attractive, don't forget your up stairs(intellect) if you leave it behind, i will consider all other colors invalid."
"We cherish reprobates, not for their cruelty, but for their little show of patronage."
"True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other."
"Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth."
"Don't call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!"
"Some men can love forever, some for six years, some for six months, and others for six hours."
"The more attention you give to your loved ones, the less affection you recieve from them."
"There's a big difference on being wise and being crafty. The former is the attribute of God, and the latter is that of Satan."
"A virtuos woman is not moved by big names and flamboyance, but only men of profound wisdom and integrity move her."
"No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have."