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#1

“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

tags: affair, assurance, autonomy, believe-in-yourself, breakup, composure, detachment, development, disappearance, distance, escape, fade, freedom, hide, hideout, impression, independence, leg-pulling, let-go, letting-go, liberty, love, michael-bassey-johnson, neutrality, out-of-view, poise, prove, respect, self-control, self-reliance, self-rule, separation, single, sovereignty, survival, test, unconventional, unconventionality, vanish

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#2

“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.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

tags: acceptance, affection, friendship, love, loyalty, power-of-love, secrets, true-friends, true-love, trust

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#3

“Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: acid, attack, bad-people, calumny, chemical, counterfeit, deception, decievers, demon, devil, fake, fake-friends, fault-finders, food-for-thought, gossip, haters, hatred, hurt, incessant, insanity, negative, negative-people, pessimism, plot, ploy, pretence, pretenders, slander, slanderers, smiles, strategy, swindle, sycophants, toxic-people, trick, troubesome-people, trouble, villain

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#4

“It is better to lock up your heart with a merciless padlock, than to fall in love with someone who doesn't know what they mean to you.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

tags: abstinence, affair, apart, breakdown, breakup, celibacy, celibate, chaste, cheating, courage, divorce, end, enstrangement, falling-in-love, falling-in-love-with-a-beast, final-decision, key, lock-up, love-affair, mercilless, michael-bassey-johnson, padlock, parting, sea, single

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#5

“To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: alone, bad-company, bad-friends, bad-influence, be-yourself, behaviour, believe-in-yourself, callow, childishness, company, etiquette, good-behaviour, good-quality, immature, immaturity, maturity, mediocre, mediocrity, negative-influence, negative-people, outstanding, peculiar, peculiarity, presence, quality, sensitivity, single, stand-alone

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#6

“Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: appearance, bad, character, destroyers, destruction, distractors, enemies, enemy, evil, evil-words, fiend, food-for-thought, good-self-image, gossips, haters, hatred, hurt, image, insults, kill, negative, negative-attitude, negative-people, negative-viewers, protect, protection, ruin, skin, tarnish, toxic-people, trouble, ugly-people, viewers, villian

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#7

“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.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: boo, bring-back, buddy, companion, consideration, don-t-go-away, experience, friends, friendship, friendships, good-times, impression, impressive, living, looking-back, love, never-give-up, reflection, relationship, relationships, remembrance, season, seasons, the-old-good-days, thinking, true-friends, trust, trustworthy, unforgettable, value, walk-in, walk-out, worth

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#8

“Stay away from lazy parasites, who perch on you just to satisfy their needs, they do not come to alleviate your burdens, hence, their mission is to distract, detract and extract, and make you live in abject poverty.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: burden, detractors, distract, egocentric, egoism, egotism, egotist, fake-friends, fatal, laziness, lazy, michael-bassey-johnson, mission, narcissism, parasites, perch, satisfaction, self-absorbed, self-centred, self-interest, self-obsessed, vain

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#9

“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.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: attraction, bad, bad-people, bait, cheat, cheaters, cheating, corrosive, devil, devilish, dog, dogs, evil, fake-friends, false-colour, fools, gift, hate, haters, hatred, love, michael-bassey-johnson, negative, negative-people, negativity, pretence, pretension, sycophants, trick, trickish, tricky, wolves

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#10

“True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: affair, affection, attachment, bond, care, caring, close, emotion, emotions, fellow-feeling, friendship, friendships, game, hide-and-seek, intimacy, love-affair, lover, lovers, michael-bassey-johnson, mutual-attachment, passion, play, relationship, seeker, sharing, true-love, truth

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#11

“Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing, which could lead to their downfall.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: annihilation, bad-people, concentration, cruel, curse, destruction, downfall, enemies, haters, hatred, image, karma, karmic, malice, malicious, michael-bassey-johnson, murder, negative-people, negativity, prayer, prayers, ruin, self-destruction, slippery, spoilers, tarnish, thinking-evil, witchcraft

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#12

“Don't destroy yourself by allowing negative people add gibberish and debris to your character, reputation, and aspirations. Keep all dreams alive but discreet, so that those with unhealthy tongues won't have any other option than to infest themselves with their own diseases.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

tags: backbiting, calumny, character, detractors, discreet, discretion, disease, diseases, enemies, false, gibberish, haters, health, infest, michael-bassey-johnson, negative-people, reputation, ruin, unhealthy

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#13

“Don't pretend to be what you're not, instead, pretend to what you want to be, it is not pretence, it is a journey to self realization.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: achiever, attention, attitude, believe-in-yourself, character, confiding-in-yourself, estimation, eye-cany, eye-service, fake, false, ignorance, impress, impression, journey, michael-bassey-johnson, notice, pretence, pretending, pride, real, self-realization, show-off, the-real-man, what-you-are

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#14

“Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: alone, bad-company, bad-friends, believe-in-yourself, company, composure, contentment, crowd, detachment, disturbance, enigma, enigmatic, freedom, friends, friendship, friendships, happiness, liberty, lonely, lonliness, michael-bassey-johnson, negative-people, once, one, privacy, private-life, remember, rememberance, separation, single, today, toxic-people, unecessary, yesterday, you

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#15

“A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

tags: ascetic, astral-projection, contemplation, creativity, dreams, escape, journey, meditation, mind, thoughts, travel

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#16

“I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: africa, africans, amorous, apartheid, attraction, black-people, color, common-sense, face, falling-in-love, fancy, human-beings, intelligence, knowledge, liking, love, memories, memory, michael-bassey-johnson, nigerians, race, wisdom, wise, wise-men, wise-people

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#17

“-We need more love, to supersede hatred, -We need more strength,
to resist our weaknesses,
-We need more inspiration,
to lighten up our innermind.
-We need more learning,
to erase our ignorance,
-We need more wisdom,
to live longer and happier,
-We need more truths, to suppress deceptions,
-We need more health,
to enjoy our wealth,
-We need more peace, to stay in harmony with our brethren
-We need more smiles,
to brighten up our day,
-We need more hero's, and not zero's,
-We need more change of ourselves, to change the lives of others,
-We need more understanding,
to tackle our misunderstanding,
-We need more sympathy,
not apathy,
-We need more forgiveness,
not vengeance,
-We need more humility to be lifted up,
-We need more patience and not undue eagerness,
-We need more focus, to avoid distraction,
-We need more optimism,
not pessimism
-We need more justice,
not injustice,
-We need more facts, not fiction,
-We need more education,
to curb illiteracy,
-We need more skills, not incompetence,
-We need more challenges,
to make attempts,
-We need more talents,
to create the extraordinary,
-We need more helping hands,
not stingy folks,
-We need more efforts,
not laziness,
-We need more jokes, to forget our worries, -We need more spirituality,
not mean religion,
-We need more freedom,
not enslavement,
-We need more peacemakers,
not revolutionaries...with these, we create an heaven on earth.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

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#18

“The only person worthy of your love is not one who overstayed in the relationship without a single change, but one, who appeared like an angel, and used a single day to make a million change.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

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#19

“Sometimes your dearest friend whom you reveal most of your secrets to becomes so deadly and unfriendly without knowing that they were not really your friend.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: back-stabbing, backbiting, bad-friends, bad-people, behind, betrayal, confidant, deadly, dearest, disloyalty, distrust, double-dealing, fake-friends, falseness, fickleness, friend, friends, friendship, fuck-up, hurt, infidelity, suspicion, two-timing, unfaithfulness, unfriendliness, wolves

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#20

“The stupidity of gossips is that they become frightened when they see your face, and a little word from your mouth makes them vibrate like an electrocuted criminal.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

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#21

“When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: alone, antisocial, attitude, breakup, childish, childishness, complain, complaining, complexity, difficult-person, disregard, fail, fun, insult, insults, open-minded, peculiarity, people, rejection, remember, simplicity, snob, social-life, squabble, underate, underestimate, underestimation

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#22

“Sometimes we have to behave indifferent towards people who proclaim their love to us, just to see if they are really different.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: apathy, appraisal, assessment, difference, different, exploration, first-impression, first-love, impression, love, mood, originality, proclaimation, pulling-legs, study, tempt, temptation, test, true-friends, true-love, try-out, trying-out, unreturned-love

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#23

“Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Scars Of Beauty

tags: amorous, amorous-men, beauty, bodies, body, children, corruption, daughters, discover, discovering, falling, female, girls, immaturity, immoral, immorality, lecher, lecherous, love, lust, lustful, manipulate, manipulation, maturity, men, michael-bassey-johnson, naive, puberty, pubescence, scars, sense, senses, sex, sexual-abuse, sexual-intercourse, sexy, vagina, woman, women, woo

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#24

“You can believe in whatsoever you like, but the truth remains the truth, no matter how sweet the lie may taste.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: bad-influence, belief, bible, christianity, exaggeration, fabrication, false-prophets, falsification, gospel, half-truth, liar, lie, mendacity, philosophy, religion, sugar-coated, sweet, taste, truth, untruth

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#25

“A sincere friend conceals all your deformities, deceives and convince others that you are extremely perfect, the insincere will tell the truth of destruction, leave you open for others to glare and laugh.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

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#26

“A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: advice, believe-in-yourself, courage, dependence, dignity, good-behaviour, implementation, indifference, michael-bassey-johnson, nonchalance, not-moved, opinion, opinions, pride, self-esteem, standard, standing-firm, standing-your-ground, trust, voice, wisdom, wise, witty

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#27

“There are better people in the world, do not let the worst do the worst to you, you deserve the best in life.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: be-happy, benefit, best, better, blessing, care, caring, composure, eat, eat-and-drink, enjoy, enjoy-life, enjoy-yourself, girl-power, good-life, good-riddance, good-things, hanging-out, life, life-and-living, loving-someone, merry, peace, relationship, relationships, the-best, together, worst

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#28

“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.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

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#29

“You don't buy all the clothes in the market. You choose slowly and carefully, asking the prices for each before buying. The same way you choose your friends, by looking into their lives carefully, before taking any as a companion, then dropping those that are not relevant.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

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#30

“Nobody wants to know how you feel, yet, they want you to do what they feel.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: anti-social, apathy, decievers, displeasure, dogma, dogmatic, egoism, egotism, egotist, fake-friends, feelings, flatter, flattering, impulse, impulsive, logic, madness, michael-bassey-johnson, misfit, mishap, pressure, reasoning, trick

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