35 quotes
"True love is not a hide-and-seek game; in true love, both lovers seek each other."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Love
"When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Love
"Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Awareness
"In your darkest hour, give thanks, for in due time, the morning will come. And it will come with a ray of sunshine."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Hope
"One good thing about the rain is that it is not only destructive, in that it can bring dead plants back to life."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Hope
"Butterflies are not called butterflies overnight. They have to undergo tons of changes in order to acquire that name."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Transformation
"Just as plants need water to grow, skills need practice to thrive."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Personal Growth
"Keep those who believe in you closer."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Relationships
"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
Relationships
"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."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Relationships
"Birds are magical. Their flight alone can arouse a clever thought."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Inspiration
"If you knew how great your little dreams are, you wouldn’t let them die."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Motivation
"Miss the flight. Miss the boat. Miss the class. Miss the party. But, never ever miss your dream."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Motivation
"The comfort zone is a region where great dreams go to get murdered, buried and forgotten."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Adversity
"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
Adversity
"No matter how valuable you are and your ideas, fools will certainly play both of you down, so exclude yourselves from the inflammatory environs of fools."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Adversity
"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
Adversity
"Document your dreams. Sketch that shape you saw. Write those lyrics before they fade out."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Creativity
"If roses could talk, they would not boast of their beauty, because they know that they have always been beautiful."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Self-esteem
"If you were looking for whom to make a hero, look in the direction where there are farmers, for they are the ones who have conspired with nature to save humanity."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Respect
"To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Belief in Self
"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
Belief in Self
"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
Belief in Self
"A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Belief in Self
"When you plant a tree, you bring nature a step closer to your home."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Connection to Earth
"In dreams, you will find the truth. In dreams, you will find a way."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Insight
"Dreams always appear bad when they come to put you on the right track."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Optimism
"Music replays the past memories, awaken our forgotten worlds and make our minds travel."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Reflection
"It is easy to remove a weevil from a grain, but hard to reverse the damage it does."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Reflection
"The night taught me never to fear the dark times, by giving way to the dawn of a new day."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
New Beginnings
"Giving thanks for the little things draw bigger, better, and extra things your way."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Gratitude
"Be grateful for the one thing that is perfectly working, out of the million that keeps breaking your heart."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Gratitude
"I love how the garden brightens after getting drenched by rain."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Joy
"There are no soft grounds in life. Just places to water and plough."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Perseverance
"A blessed home is not a home full of kids, but a home where there is peace, harmony and understanding."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
Peace