{"quotes":[{"text":"When your absence is felt, your presence is the essence and it makes a difference.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["absence","amiability","amicable","attraction","difference","disappearance","ego","essence","good-influence","greatness","honor","importance","influence","michael-bassey-johnson","presence","respect","scarcity","separation","value","vip"],"id":113698,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others.","author":"Mokokoma Mokhonoana","tags":["affable","alone","amicable","anchoress","anchorite","anthropocentric","anthropocentrism","antisocial","approachable","ascetic","by-oneself","chummy","cloistered","clubby","communicative","companionable","companionless","convivial","cordial","eremite","extrovert","forthcoming","friendless","friendly","genial","gregarious","hail-fellow-well-met","hermit","hermitic","incommunicado","introvert","isolate","isolation","lone-wolf","lonely","loner","lonesome","marabout","misanthrope","misanthropy","on-one-s-own","open","outgoing","recluse","reclusive","responsive","seclude","secluded","sociable","solitarian","solitary","solitudinarian","troglodyte","unaccompanied","unsociable","warm","withdrawn"],"id":125070,"author_id":"Mokokoma+Mokhonoana"},{"text":"My friend is my friend, even if he wears rag, even if he wasn't born with a silver spoon, even if nobody wants to be his friend, I will hurt his critics by remaining his friend.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["amicable","boo","bosom-friend","compassion","compassionate","condescension","critic","critics","faithfulness","friend","friendship","friendships","love","materialism","michael-bassey-johnson","my-friend","ostracize","rag","silver-spoon","sympathy","ties","union"],"id":128362,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"If you were destined to be a poet, then you won't brainstorm for lines that rhymes. If you were destined to be a celebrity, then you shouldn't start searching for fans. If you are truly a god, then let others worship you!","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["amicable","believe","calm","celebrity","control","conviction","destiny","fame","famous","fans","fate","food-for-thought","forever","future","god","human-nature","michael-bassey-johnson","nature","pessimism","phenomenon","poet","poetic","poets","praise","prediction","season","talent","time","time-and-season","to-be","tomorrow","truth","upliftment","wise","worship","writer","writers","writing","years"],"id":280705,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Don't let your teeth make you lose respect by permanently keeping them opened for the sake of being friendly.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["affability","amiability","amicable","amusement","communication","dishonour","excessive","extrovert","friend","friendly","friends","frown","funny","hahaha","humor","insult","insults","jester","joke","laughter","lively","mirth","mouth","respect","shut-up","smile","smiles","smiling","social","socializing","stupidity","talkative","teeth"],"id":301272,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":5,"pages":1}}