{"quotes":[{"text":"Our critics make us strong!Our fears make us bold!Our haters make us wise!Our foes make us active!Our obstacles make us passionate!Our losses make us wealthy!Our disappointments make us appointed!Our unseen treasures give us aknown peace!Whatever is designed against us will work for us!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["active","against","appointed","bold","criticism","criticize","critics","design","disappointment","disappointments","enemies","fear","fears","foes","hate","haters-wise","israelmore-ayivor","loss","losses","obstacles","passionate","peace","strong","treasures","unseen","we-are-blessed","wealth","wealthy","work"],"id":3324,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Better associations. If you associate yourself with a change maker,Your life will by all means become better.You will wink at challenges and begin to think.In times of frustrations, you will not sink.If you miss the way to a great destination,Just look for those going to that direction.Mount the shoulders of a giant believerAnd you will become a great achiever.People around you determine your speed.They will influence the growth of your seed.People you are around will decide your strengthAnd also the figure of your success’ lengthI trust you want to become a better you.It matters, what your associates plan to do.It depends, where your companions want to go.It relies on what your friends believe and know.Quit friendships that build you nothingChoose friends who bring out of you somethingOne iron sharpens another ironGo along with great people and ride on.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["accompany","associate","association","better-associations","better-you","companion","company","dating","destination","direction","enemies","failure","foes","friends","friendship","frustrations","iron-sharpens-iron","israelmore-ayivor","israelmore-ayivor-poems","people","people-pull-people","people-push-people","poem","poetry","relationship","social","society","success","successful"],"id":35605,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Fire False Friends as early as possible. Do it before they dig out the dream seeds you've planted! The earlier, the better; the quicker, the safer!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["bad-boys","bad-friends","bad-friendship","bad-people","better","dig","dream","dream-killers","dream-seeds","earlier","early","enemies","evil","false","fire","foes","food-for-thought","friends","friendship","good-friends","good-friendship","good-over-evil","israelmore-ayivor","out","planted","possible","quick","quit","safe","safer","steal","toxic-friends","toxic-people","toxic-relationships"],"id":102892,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Ur be the things I am wiser to know:Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.Four be the things I'd been better without:Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.Three be the things I shall never attain:Envy, content, and sufficient champagne.Three be the things I shall have till I die:Laughter and hope and a sock in the eye.","author":"Dorothy Parker","tags":["champagne","contentment","curiosity","doubt","envy","foes","friends","hope","idleness","inventory","knowledge","laughter","life","love","sorrow","sufficienty","superfluity","unattainable","values","wisdom"],"id":109649,"author_id":"Dorothy+Parker"},{"text":"Flavour your life in such a way that anyone who thinks he or she is biting or back-biting you, will rather take smiles away unexpectedly and with surprises.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["adversaries","back-bite","back-biting","behaviour","bite","biting","critics","enermies","flavor","flavour","foes","fresh","fresh-life","good-behaviour","good-habit","good-life","gossiping","gossips","habit","happy","haters","life","live-life-so-well","love","not-expected","obey","respect","smile","surprise","surprising","sweet","sweet-life","taste","unexpected"],"id":139325,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"In selfish men caution is as secure an armour for their foes as for themselves.","author":"Bram Stoker","tags":["armour","caution","foes","greed","selfish","selfishness"],"id":141757,"author_id":"Bram+Stoker"},{"text":"As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.","author":"Ralph Waldo Emerson","tags":["criticism","enemies","enemy","fame","foe","foes","praise","success"],"id":192113,"author_id":"Ralph+Waldo+Emerson"},{"text":"Be grateful for the life of those who mass up challenges on the paths to your fulfillment. At least they taught you self-defense!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["be-grateful","challenge","challenges","defend-yourself","enemies","enemy","foes","food-for-thought","fulfill","grateful","gratefulness","israelmore-ayivor","mass-up","negative-people","path","paths","self-defence","self-defense","thank-you","thankful","thanks","thanksgiving","toxic-people"],"id":232231,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"I cannot encourage any fabrication even for the sake of making people feel good. If I were to fabricate consciously and knowingly, I would not only be ordaining myself their enemy, but also ordaining myself God's enemy.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["apologetics","christianity","enemies","fabrication","fabrications","facts","fake","flatter","flattery","foes","friends","friendship","god","goodness","greater-good","holiness","honesty","lies","opinions","philosophy","pretense","real","theology","truth","work","writing"],"id":266885,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"Are we friends? Or are we foes? ... That kind of thing... You decide... For yourselves!!!","author":"Eiichirō Oda","tags":["decision","foes","friends","self"],"id":327278,"author_id":"Eiichir%C5%8D+Oda"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":15,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}