{"quotes":[{"text":"Spread your courtesy across the door posts of everyone you know, but reserve your intimacy with the little trustworthy friends who are going where you are going. Get it simply: wide courtesy, narrow intimacy!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["across","bad-friends","close","companion","courteous","courtesy","door","door-post","doorpost","food-for-thought","friends","friendship","good-friends","intimacy","intimate","israelmore-ayivor","narrow","reserve","spread","trust","trusted","trustworthy","wide"],"id":29346,"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":"Always make an effort to be around people who will help you grow.","author":"Joyce Rachelle","tags":["choosing-friends","choosing-friends-wisely","friends","friendship","good-friends","growing","growth","right-friends","self-development","self-improvement"],"id":80775,"author_id":"Joyce+Rachelle"},{"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":"Sticking to one person for a lifetime is not a waste of time or lack of better ones, it means you've found your place of eternity.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["affair","attachment","better","close","closeness","dwelling-place","eternity","finding-someone","fondness","forever","forever-love","glue","good-friends","home","it-takes-two","lack","life-and-living","lifetime","love","love-affair","love-one","love-ones","loyalty","magnetism","michael-bassey-johnson","one","one-person","personal-person","soulmate","sticking","stirrings","strong-bond","time","true-friends","two","unconditional-love","unity","waste"],"id":120562,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"If books are your good friends, then a conscious life will be your best comrade all your life!","author":"Mehmet Murat ildan","tags":["book","books","comrade","conscious-life","good-friends","life"],"id":124370,"author_id":"Mehmet+Murat+ildan"},{"text":"Plant a good seed in people who have fertile hearts. When you are away, they'll miss you. When you are coming again, they can't wait!","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["a-good-seed","away","come-again","fall-in-love","fertile","fertile-hearts","food-for-thought","good","good-friends","good-seed","heart","hearts","i-love-you","i-miss-you","israelmore-ayivor","love-people","lovers","miss-you","missing-you","people","people-s-heart","plant","seed","you-are-special","you-are-special-to-me"],"id":222008,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Yes, a deep lesson from the postage stamp. It attaches itself to a moveable material, the envelope and gets going. A good relationship keeps you going forward; a bad one keeps you static. Attach yourself to someone who is also going forward and you will also get there.","author":"Israelmore Ayivor","tags":["achieve","attachment","believe","believe-and-achieve","companions","companionship","envelope","extra","extra-mile","food-for-thought","friends","go-extra-mile","good-friends","israelmore-ayivor","keep-going","postage-stamp","relationship","stamp","success"],"id":239314,"author_id":"Israelmore+Ayivor"},{"text":"Don't act so callous to blank out good friends who failed on their way to success, just because something unusual hindered them, but you meandered out by a stroke of luck.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["affection","benevolence","chance","faithfulness","fate","good-friends","helping-hand","hindrance","kindness","love","luck","michael-bassey-johnson","obstacle","obstacles","stroke-of-luck","success","sympathy"],"id":242803,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":19,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}