{"quotes":[{"text":"A true friend is someone you can count on no matter what.","author":"Bohdi Sanders","tags":["bohdi-sanders","friends","friendship","friendships","real-friend","real-friends","real-friendship","true-friend","true-friend","true-friends","true-friendship"],"id":14193,"author_id":"Bohdi+Sanders"},{"text":"Listening to their argument made me aware of how empty my life was, and I hated the life I was living all the more. It was quite obvious to me this lady was deeply in love, for she was fighting for what she thought to be hers. Even though I was dating two females at the time, and stringing a third one along, yet I’ve yet to discover that kind of love. I guess this was why my favorite song was ‘I wane be love’, by the Jamaican reggae super star Buru Banton.","author":"Drexel Deal","tags":["argument","deeply-in-love","emptiness","faithfulness","hunger-within","infidelity","loneliness","love","relationships","searching-for-love","thug-life","true-friendship","true-love"],"id":19076,"author_id":"Drexel+Deal"},{"text":"I want him to be with me because he likes being with me, not because he's forced to be with me or because he wants something from me. That's not how friendship should be.' [Ellani].","author":"A.L. Davroe","tags":["desire","friendship","love","nexis","true-friendship"],"id":34392,"author_id":"A.L.+Davroe"},{"text":"Despite I may be surrounded by many friends, there is not one that interests me as much as you do.","author":"Auliq Ice","tags":["love","real-love","true-friendship","true-love"],"id":45951,"author_id":"Auliq+Ice"},{"text":"What is so rewarding about friendship?” my son asked, curling his upper lip into a sour expression. “Making friends takes too much time and effort, and for what?” I sat on the edge of his bed, understanding how it might seem simpler to go at life solo. “Friendship has unique rewards,” I told him. “They can be unpredictable. For instance....” I couldn’t help but pause to smile crookedly at an old memory that was dear to my heart. Then I shared with my son an unforgettable incident from my younger years. “True story. When I was about your age, I decided to try out for a school play. Tryouts were to begin after the last class of the day, but first I had to run home to grab a couple props for the monologue I planned to perform during tryouts. Silly me, I had left them at the house that morning. Luckily, I only lived across a long expanse of grassy field that separated the school from the nearest neighborhood. Unluckily, it was raining and I didn’t have an umbrella.  “Determined to get what I needed, I raced home, grabbed my props, and tore back across the field while my friend waited under the dry protection of the school’s wooden eaves. She watched me run in the rain, gesturing for me to go faster while calling out to hurry up or we would be late.  “The rain was pouring by that time which was added reason for me to move fast. I didn’t want to look like a wet rat on stage in front of dozens of fellow students. Don’t ask me why I didn’t grab an umbrella from home—teenage pride or lack of focus, I’m not sure—but the increasing rain combined with the hollering from my friend as well as my anxious nerves about trying out for the play had me running far too fast in shoes that lacked any tread.  “About a yard from the sidewalk where the grass was worn from foot traffic and consequently muddied from the downpour of rain, I slipped and fell on my hind end. Me, my props, and my dignity slid through the mud and lay there, coated. My things were dripping with mud. I was covered in it. I felt my heart plunge, and I wanted to cry. I probably would have if it hadn’t been for the wonderful thing that happened right then. My crazy friend ran over and plopped herself down in the mud beside me. She wiggled in it, making herself as much a mess as I was. Then she took my slimy hand in hers and pulled us both to our feet. We tried out for the play looking like a couple of swine escaped from a pigsty, laughing the whole time. I never did cry, thanks to my friend. “So yes, my dear son, friendship has its unique rewards—priceless ones.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["friends","friendship","friendship","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich","true-friendship"],"id":48859,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"Don’t hate people who show you what’s wrong with you. They are your mirror, they are your true friends.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["be-real","guidance","real-talk","true-friends","true-friendship","wisdom"],"id":54310,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"God send a one person for you, never miss the chance , who make you queen and do-did everything for your smile without any selfiness....","author":"Arshdeep Singh Samrala","tags":["true-friendship","true-love"],"id":107166,"author_id":"Arshdeep+Singh+Samrala"},{"text":"I'd rather reminisce about old memories I had with true people than record the moments I have with fake people.","author":"Nathanael Kanyinga","tags":["moments","people","true-friendship"],"id":110377,"author_id":"Nathanael+Kanyinga"},{"text":"At the end of the day, there are very few people around you who truly want to see you peaceful, happy and content. Most of your friends only want to see you happy, peaceful and content, in ratio to their own happiness, peace and contentment. It's like, 'Yeah, I want all your dreams to come true and I want to see you smile, but only for as much as I smile and only in proportion to how many of my own dreams come true.' That's what people today call, 'friendship' and 'care'. It's not really friendship and it's not really care. Then there's like one or two people who would celebrate your own happiness and success even if it's out of proportion to their own. And that's a real blessing right there, that's a real friendship.","author":"C. JoyBell C.","tags":["fake-friendship","false-friendship","genuine-friendship","guidance-in-life","inspirational-friendship","inspirational-living","inspirational","life-and-living","real-friendship","the-meaning-of-friendship","true-friendship","wisdom","words-of-wisdom-on-friendship"],"id":131583,"author_id":"C.+JoyBell+C."},{"text":"When something serious happens in your life, something bad comes out of it but also something good. You get to see who is real. Who your true friends are, and who truly loves you. .","author":"Angie karan","tags":["angie-karan","friendship","life","real","true-friends","true-friendship"],"id":142076,"author_id":"Angie+karan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}