{"quotes":[{"text":"Leaders create and maintain good interpersonal relationships with people they meet and work with. People who lead better relate better.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["better","better-life","companions","company","create","creativity","food-for-thought","good","interpersonal","interpersonal-relationship","israelmore-ayivor","leader","leaders","leadership","meet","network","people","personal-development","relate","work"],"id":21118,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"These are the attributes of Bullshit people; they will...Blur your imagination, take your endowments for a piece of debris, make you ridiculous, and most importantly, you got to send them to the recycle bin.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["attributes","bad","bad-behaviour","bad-friends","bad-people","bin","blur","companions","crazily","crazy","debris","deframe","demean","destroy","disbelieve","discredit","dispose","disvalue","downgrading","drive","endowments","food-for-thought","friends","friendship","good-friends","ideas","image","imaginations","michael-bassey-johnson","negative","negative-people","negativity","opinions","people","potentials","power","recycle-bin","stay-away","thought","toxic-people","value"],"id":32771,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"My dad once said... 'Some friends are like 'rubber wrappers'; they bind with you safely but get weaker when you stretch them too much'. Treat your friends with care, else the elasticity of their love for you may not go lasting!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["bad-friends","care-for-friends","companions","comrade","comrades","dad","elastic","elasticity","father","fathers-day","food-for-thought","friends","friendship","good-friends","israelmore-ayivor","keep-good-friends","last","last-long","lasting","love","my-dad","my-father","overuse","respect-your-friends","rubber-wrappers","safe","stretch","treat","weaker"],"id":35554,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"There comes some special times that you got to keep 'impossibility thinkers' behind you and walk with those are prepared to go forward with you because that is the only option to keep you going!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["bad-friends","behind","companions","companionship","food-for-thought","forward","friends","friendship","impossibility","impossibility-thinkers","impossible","israelmore-ayivor","keep","keep-going","negative-people","option","preparation","prepare","special","toxic-people","walk"],"id":56776,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Plantations of good morals are easily captivated, colonized and corrupted by the pests of a bad company. Spray away bad companies and you will experience a bumper harvest of your dream fruits!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["away","bad-company","bad-friends","bad-fruits","befriend","bumper","bumper-harvest","captivated","companions","corrupt","corrupted","dream-fruits","experience","food-for-thought","friend","friendship","fruits","good-morals","good-seed","harvest","israelmore-ayivor","pests","plantain","plantations","relationships","spray"],"id":66607,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"The rise or fall, success or failure of your dreams is largely dependent on the association you build yourself around.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["associates","association","big-dreams","companion","companions","companionship","depend","dependency","dependent","dream","dreams","failure","fall","food-for-thought","friendship","israelmore-ayivor","leaders","leadership","martin-luther","martin-luther-king","martin-luther-king-jr","people-friends","relationship","rise","rise-and-fall","success","success-and-failure","you-can-rise"],"id":67383,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.","author":"Dylan Thomas","tags":["companions","earthy","hope","innocence","love","optimism","partnership"],"id":78789,"author_id":"Dylan+Thomas"},{"text":"Talk to strangers politely. You don’t how many of them will become your close companions.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["companions","food-for-thought","friendly","friends","friendship","israelmore-ayivor","mentors","polite","politely","rude","speak","speech","stranger","strangers","talk","words"],"id":79574,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"You will meet a lot of people in your life; some laugh with you, others will laugh at you; some will love to clean your mess, others will love to mess you up! Love all, but choose carefully the one who stays close to you forever!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["bad-friends","bad-people","careful","companies","companions","food-for-thought","forever","friends","friendship","israelmore-ayivor","laugh","love","mess","mock","people","toxic-people","untrustworthy-people"],"id":127458,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"The King once said to me, 'Harold, you stand above all other men.' I said, 'No, Sire. I want nothing more than to stand shoulder to shoulder with my men. I am nothing without them.","author":"Elizabeth Alder","tags":["companions","comradeship","friendship","people"],"id":127477,"author_id":"Elizabeth+Alder"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":61,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}