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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

“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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#3

“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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#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

“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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#6

“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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#7

“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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#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

“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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#10

“-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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#11

“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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#12

“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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#13

“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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#14

“Some people tend to throw your love to the dogs when you become totally submissive to them, but when you want to get out of the heat, they pull you back into the kitchen.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

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#15

“I can cross the boundless ocean just to save you, I cannot eat or sleep without you, I can take you on a journey to heaven and show you to the angels. All these are fake and absurd promises; Be sincere, walk up to your lover and say, honestly, darling, i can only do the best i can for you.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

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#16

“Some men can love forever, some for six years, some for six months, and others for six hours.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: 666, affairs, attraction, breakup, fact, fake-friends, forever, humor, inclination, infatuation, love, love-affair, man, men, michael-bassey-johnson, relationship, sacrifice, serious-love, six-six-six, truth

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#17

“Just as the unwanted pregnancy, there are unwanted people in your life you should strive to abort, and such abortion is not sin, nor harm, but the eradication of a destructive foetus.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: abort, abortion, bad-people, boring, bothersome, destruction, distractors, enmity, eradication, euthanasia, fake-friends, foetus, haters, kill, mercy-killing, michael-bassey-johnson, negative-people, sin, trouble, troublesome, unwanted

71 likes

#18

“There are thousands out there who are looking for someone like you, why should you keep on crying for that bloody motherfucker who doesn't deserve you and your love?”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

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#19

“Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts for a wise, well breed, experienced, humble, modest gentleman.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: adult, adulthood, background, bad-boys, callow, cockiness, corruption, disrespect, down-to-earth, emptiness, empty, enlightened, enlightenment, experience, gentleman, gentlemen, humility, immaturity, insensitive, insensitivity, ladies, lady, madness, maturity, modesty, option, puberty, puerile, reckless, rude, rudeness, ruthless, sensibility, sensible, teen, teenagers, unconscious, vanity, young, young-people, youth

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#20

“You will know who truly loves you when you ask them to do an uncoventional favor.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: a-good-friend, ask, asking, benevolence, bond, character, discerning, disguise, favour, friendship, genuine, giver, givers, giving, help, helper, helping, love, magnanimity, michael-bassey-johnson, perception, plead, sensitive, sensitivity, spotting-out, true-friend, unconventional

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#21

“It is difficult to love someone who loves you, but easy to hate someone who loves you, and love someone who hates you.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: attraction, blind, camaraderie, confusion, desire, difficulties, difficulty, easy, emotion, emotional, emotions, epigram, fact, facts, falling-in-love, feeling, feelings, food-for-thought, hate, hatred, in-love, infatuation, love, love-is-blind, lover, lovers, lovers-quote, lovesick, michael-bassey-johnson, paradox, paradoxical, real, stupid, stupid-love, true-love, truth, witty, witty-quote

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#22

“Pretend to be poor in reality and you'll notice a decrease in your friends list and request.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: decrease, desert, diminishing, fake, fake-friends, fake-people, friendship, friendships, note, notice, poor, poverty, pretence, reality, relationship, relationships, request, shun

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#23

“Don't try to make yourself marketable, you'll be surprised to see yourself at the bottom. Stay incognito, and people will peruse the whole world looking for you, by that time, you'll be at the top.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: camoufladge, celebrity, fake-people, fame, famous, fans, honour, michael-bassey-johnson, popular, popularity, pride, respect, reverence, rising, show, slow-and-steady

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#24

“When things are like hunky dory, every enemy comes in the name of friend, but when things are twisted like turmoil, every friendly enemy shows you their colour.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: bad-friends, bad-side, bootlickers, chemicals, colour, devil, enemies, enemy, fiend, fiendish, foul, friends, good, hate, hater, hatred, hunky-dory, michael-bassey-johnson, negative-people, pretenders, pretense, real-colour, relationships, sycophants, turmoil, twisted

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#25

“Once you have money and fame, the next thing you should expect is scandal and shame.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

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#26

“Just because you have stolen someone's heart, luckily owned and occupied as a home, doesn't give you the audacity to enforce hurtful policies.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: advantage, apathy, audacity, bad-influence, captivation, capture, control, convention, cruelty, domination, heartbreak, home, hurt, lies, negative-influence, own, owned, owner, policies, policy, self-centred, self-interest, selfishness, social-strata, stance, stealing, stolen, strictness, superiority, taken, taking-advantage-of-someone, tyranny, weaker-vessels, weakness

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#27

“Don't let the rain drive you to the wrong shelter; the shade can turn out to be your protector and also your destroyer, and sometimes the rain is the perfect protector from the rain.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: asylum, believe-in-yourself, calm, calmness, destroyer, dream, dreams, escape, food-for-thought, fright, hideout, journey, michael-bassey-johnson, patience, perfect, protect, protection, rain, refuge, regret, responsibility, running-away, scary, shade, shelter, stay-calm, storm, trembling, umbrella, wrong

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#28

“Love should not cause suffocation and death if it is truly love. Don't bundle someone into an uncomfortable cage just because you want to ensure their safety in your life. The bird knows where it belongs, and will never fly to a wrong nest.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: anxiety, attachment, attention, belong, betrayal, bird, cage, care, clingy, death, discomfort, disturbance, domineering, fidelity, fly, honesty, infidelity, insecure, insecurity, life, love, loyalty, nest, panic, protection, safety, security, suffocation, tired, too-much, true-love, trust, undue-attachment, wrong

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#29

“There should be a little gap between you and your friends, though you'll miss their companionship and you'll also miss their disrespect.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: alone, apart, breathing-space, companionship, disrespect, distance, escape, friends, gap, i-miss-you, intermission, interval, isolation, missing, missing-someone, remote, remoteness, reticence

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#30

“A poor man knows the true value of money and will not dare waste it, but a rich man is extravagant and always looking for an opportunity to empty his pockets.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson

tags: alternative, angry, cash, disease, empty, extravagant, giver, giving, handsome-pocket, hunger, hungry, hungry-man, michael-bassey-johnson, miser, misers, money, opportunity, people, pocket, pocket-friendly, poor, poor-men, poverty, rich, spend, spending-money, use, useful, value, values, waste, wasteful, wealth

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