“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.”
"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
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity