Michael Bassey Johnson is a Nigerian philosopher and author whose powerful words have inspired a global audience to seek their true calling. His writings, rich with wisdom and clarity, assert that every person arrives on earth with a unique purpose and destiny. Johnson's work focuses on the journey of self-discovery and the unwavering commitment required to bring one's deepest potential to life. He champions the idea that true success is found in aligning with one's authentic self, making his philosophy a beacon for anyone determined to live a meaningful and impactful life.
"Even while we hate, we still have that deep unusual compassion for our rivals, and they hate it when they realize that we are feeling sorry for them."
"Success is likened to a deep pit, you have to jump in to get it, then you'll need a ladder of grace to climb out to enjoy it."
"The impact of music is so great that you'll leave your book and start dancing."
"Pretend to give consent to the advice of others, but if you find it suitable,take it. But if out of the right view, despise and cast it away."
"If you wait for the mango fruits to fall, you'd be wasting your time while others are learning how to climb the tree."
"Anytime you meditate, some electric jerks occur in your thigh...the symbol of premonition of an unpleasant event that has happened or will take place in future."
"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."
"Some friends are like sunny days, with false flames, oozing from afar, coming near without a dime."
"It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer's imagination."
"Musicians do not get on stage without hearing the song singing inside of them. Poets do not write as if they are jotting down a sermon, they see everything in their subconscious before presenting it to the conscious, which they later turn to readable materials. Artist do not draw and paint without painting in dream states, trance, or see an art form that others do not see. Being creative does not calls for being any supernatural entity, but in creating with the entities inside of you."
"Bad business should be done without guilt if it is a source of income."
"Many writers make the mistake of making their readers appear like Lazarus, without any iota of care, throwing down books to readers to crunch as if they are dogs."
"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."
"The ink in your pen never reshapes your thoughts, you must replace the ink before the ink can be inked properly."
"The sub-conscious mind is so powerful in such a way that even if you empty your mind of all its components, there will be a little thought; it is synonymous to a well informed person who can never be deformed."
"It is not a surprise that there are people we love and hate at the same time. Not as though we hate them, but we hate how they don't love us."
"We do not owe any soul, except that which played the most vital role in our lives."
"Some writers aren't writers, they are mere escapees' and refugees' on an exile from the jungle of thoughts."
"Everybody has a second personality, it may possess and make you do whatever it likes."
"Sexual satisfaction is a dissatisfaction to the spiritual life."
"Always try to come back to your senses when in love, because that's the moment you become almost carried away by sensuality and sentiments."
"Darkness can inspire light, and light can inspire darkness, its just a difference of distant of these two contrasting forces."
"Another name for destiny is opportunity, once you miss it, your destiny is gone."
"A homely face does not guarantee a homely character. Appearance is the body, character is the spirit, and the soul bears the most vital qualities."
"Your heart desire will come, but when it comes, you desire for another, and when it comes again, you still aspire for another, that shows your level of ingratitude."
"No matter the joy in heaven, its coldness will make you bask beside the flames of hell."
"They may take you for a fool, promise to shower you with the world, use their canny devastating tongue to manipulate and dominate your mind, but its better to put them bulshit people at arms length rather than falling into the arms of infidelity."
"The smallest world on earth is that which is created by a closed mind."
"Determination is learning to form a habit, and never breaking it in future."
"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. If the words from the mouth of an abusive man makes you angry, quit the whole arena and you'll discover he had got his mouth shut."
"Atheism is a lack of belief...what about the powers of darkness, and that of light, will you trace both to nothing? Then you must have created yourself."
"Any fool that had once helped you will someday make known to everyone that you were once a needy. No matter how broke you are, don't ever be quick to ask for help, let it be voluntary, and you must also learn to feign repudiation, no matter how valuable the offer."
"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."