Ashly Lorenzana Quotes

Ashly Lorenzana Quotes

All we know is what we're told.

Dogs are how people would be if the important stuff is all that mattered to us.

The world is big in some ways, and so small in others.

The more fucked up you are, the more I like you. As long as you've managed to hold onto your identity through all the shit, then it won't matter how twisted you are. I will love you more for it.

I say fuck the old advice 'show, don't tell.' It's called story TELLING for a reason, and I'll stick to it!

Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000 piece puzzle. The pieces are each a small sticky note that ends in mid-sentence. You simply need to figure out where each one starts and ends.

The fact of the matter is that you should really stop concerning yourself with writing a book because anyone can write a book that totally sucks. There is nothing special about that.

The next time you wish you could find the right words to say to someone who is hurting, just remember that dogs are a man's best friend without ever speaking a word to them. Simply be present and have sympathy.

The parts of me that hurt the worst want me to write something for them, but I can't. I don't know what to say. I'm lost in all this sadness, and so are they.

Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.

The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else.

Nothing in the tangible word that isn't living has any value beyond a dollar amount. Considering that dollars can only buy more tangible and inanimate objects, it would seem a far more worthwhile goal to instead learn to place value on the treasures of the mind. Memories, knowledge and skill together are the only things we will ever actually own.

If you love yourself the most at your happiest moments, there is no reason not to be fond of who you are in the dark.

The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either person. Some things cannot be, it's as simple as that.

People leave imprints on our lives, shaping who we become in much the same way that a symbol is pressed into the page of a book to tell you who it comes from. Dogs, however, leave paw prints on our lives and our souls, which are as unique as fingerprints in every way.

Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.

Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.

Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.

You have to believe what you're saying if you're going to convince me. I just can't break that rule, even if I want to.

Experience is the opposite of education.

If somebody never gets enough of you, they will always want more

They say blood is thicker than water. It's also more treacherous, prone to betrayal, full of shit and quite honestly, I wouldn't put much weight into it at all.

It may be a man's world, but men are easily controlled by women.

No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil.

Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these.

There will be a time when you are forced to follow your heart away from someone you love.

How much of what is there do you allow yourself to see?

It’s hardly ever that I am hurt by something in only one dimension.

Don't be scared of scars. They just tell stories that are hard to hear.

Most of the pain we feel is nothing more than a story that needs telling.

We may seem fine, even when the pain remains right there beneath our surface.

Hope is a Heaven to keep you out of Hell. It's hard work believing that it's there.

The only thing that feels worse than being stuck in a situation that makes you unhappy is realizing that you are not ready or willing to change whatever it is.

No one truly knows what they will do in a certain situation until they are actually in it. It's very easy to judge someone else's actions by what you assume your own would be, if you were in their shoes. But we only know what we THINK we would do, not what we WOULD do.

By judging others, you make yourself easy to judge.

The easiest way to gain someone's trust is to deserve it. This should be pretty easy, assuming you're just being you and being real. Minimal effort too.

No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to bring them back to life in a new way. The part of who you are that is left behind within these old ideas is what makes them original all over again.

Money is necessary in everyone's life. Why? Only because people have decided that it should be. It didn't have to be the way that it has become. If nothing came at the price of money, it wouldn't need to exist.

I'd much rather buy an experience than something I can possess in the material world

What is the point of our lives? There isn't any. I can't seem to decide how much horror and how much joy lies within that simple truth, but I know it is both of those things at once.

You never know what lurks just beneath the surface of my fragile sanity.

I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below.

It's so hard to find the place somewhere in the middle of the best and worst I've felt.

Just remember that those who feel profoundly depressed are those whose happiness is likewise intense. What's so wrong with that?

It's always almost Autumn, down here at Rock Bottom.

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