Ashly Lorenzana Quotes

Anything at all is possible. Some things are unlikely. Some things will never happen. But they always could, at any time.
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To be full of yourself is to make a fool of yourself.
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I'd much rather buy an experience than something I can possess in the material world
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No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil.
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Don't kid yourself by saying that one time can't make you addicted. It can. I believed it couldn't too when I first tried meth. I was so, so wrong. The worst part about it is that you won't realize what has happened immediately afterwards. Addiction is a gradual process and it doesn't happen overnight. But trust me when I tell you that one time is all that it takes to set this into motion. It can and it will.
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Drugs suck more than anything else I have ever liked so much.
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Sooner or later in life, we will all take our own turn being in the position we once had someone else in.
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Drugs don't really fix anything, except for everything.
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About a month after she found out about that, I got pregnant for the first time. I knew I didn't want to have a baby at all, and wanted to get an abortion. But the day I found out, I wasn't sure what to do first. I felt alone and lost and needed someone to call who I could tell. I needed help. I wasn't sure if she would talk to me again so soon after what had happened. I decided to take a chance and try calling her. When I told her, she said, "Well, an abortion is only like $500, so go turn a couple of tricks and get it taken care of," before she hung up on me. I probably should have called someone else, but I didn't know who else to call.
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How many pages will it take to tell your story?
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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.
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Storytellers don't show, they tell. I'm sticking with that.
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​You can always tell when someone deserves the praise and recognition they receive, because it humbles them rather than inflating their ego.
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Phones with numerical keypads worked best for dialing phone calls. Incidentally, phone calls tend to be the primary function of a phone. 'Smartphones' completely ignore these basic facts, resulting in some of the least intelligent devices I've seen yet. Oh the irony.
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Some people like living in black and white worlds. Let them stay there. Appreciate all the colors you see in your world though.
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Hope is a Heaven to keep you out of Hell. It's hard work believing that it's there.
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How good something is should never be determined by its cost, designer, origin, or its perceived value by others.
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I don't think I've ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets.
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There will be a time when you are forced to follow your heart away from someone you love.
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Remember that every person who you come into contact to on any given day has a story that is probably far more amazing than you will imagine and no one is going to just offer up their entire life's worth of experiences to you because you want them to. It takes time to draw someone's story out from within them. It takes trust. It takes sincerity and dedication. Keep in mind that each and every interaction you have with all those people on a daily basis is a unique opportunity to develop any kind of relationship with that person that the two of you might want to be a part of. It doesn't matter how you meet them or what it is that you do with them. It can be as mundane as waving to them in the morning as they leave their driveway, or it can be as huge as saving someone's life in a moment of uncertainty and sacrifice. Each person has the potential to become a friend or a lover or to simply teach you something important and then slip back into the endless rush of other bodies moving about the planet around us. Don't pass these chances up too often, or you'll get lost in the tide yourself.
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Everyone has a unique problem of their own, an issue that follows them throughout life and never goes away. You discover it early and go on to struggle with it for the rest of your life, almost until it eventually becomes an old enemy that you lose the will to fight or hate anymore. And just as every person has their own void, their own haunt or their own unanswered question...they also have the power to turn it into a legacy every bit as profound as they make it.
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The world is big in some ways, and so small in others.
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Everything either is, was or will be. Time doesn't really exist. It's just something we have made up that makes it easier for us to grasp the universe.
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A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I'm just a pathetic "druggie" with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of "recovery!" They make it sound like some amazing discovery...don't they know I'm far too busy trying to recover me?
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99% of all addicts are liars and thieves. This might sound unfair and even close-minded, but it's the truth. There are some exceptions to the rules, but they are incredibly rare. Most people are no match for their addictions. They will be driven to do things they would normally never have considered all in the name of getting high. Sad, but true. So if you're thinking of trying drugs, keep in mind that all the people you will be dealing with are likely to steal from you and lie to you at your own expense.
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I can pretty much guarantee that you will at some point find yourself doing something that at one point you swore you'd never do. You'll do it for the sake of getting high, either directly or indirectly. Trust me. It will happen. You might think you know yourself better than anyone, but you have yet to become acquainted with your addiction. It will introduce itself in ways that you never thought were possible.
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It is through justification of one's actions that a completely guiltless life is possible.
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Two wrongs don't make a right, but neither does one. Revenge may seem petty by day, but on some nights she becomes Justice.
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There is nothing wrong with revenge. The wrong has already been done, or there would be no need to even the score.
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There is nothing worse than having an enemy who is a total loser. It's incredibly frustrating when seeking revenge against one, because you come to the realization that there is really nothing you can do to make the person's life worse than it already is. They have nothing to take, there is no way to screw them over if you have been their victim. It's maddening.
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Even if you think you're doing well and have it all figured out, there is a voice you will always inevitably hear at some point which nags at you and says "but wait..." Don't ever dismiss it, listen to what it has to say. Life will never be close enough to perfect, and listening to that voice means stepping outside of yourself and considering your own wrongdoings and flaws.
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Morality and legality have nothing to do with one another. I'm more than fine with breaking a law if it disagrees with my values and morals.
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You cannot force things apart that are bound at the heart.
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It might be depressing, but it's also the truth that no one has the power, the money, or the resources to save everyone on the planet from going hungry, living in poverty or allowed basic human rights. But consider the other side of this: there are people in this world who truly WOULD do all of these things for everyone if only they could. There is hope after all.
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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.
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What you should actually be trying to figure out is how to tell your story. The one that is every bit as unique to you as your fingerprints.This is the truly amazing feat because you are literally the only person capable of doing that. Only you know all the parts to your story and only you can pass it on for others to hear if you choose to.
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Love is an awfully personal thing for most of us, so why isn't hate?
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If you're going to do something, strive to do it better than anyone else. Do it all the way. If you're going to half-ass it, why bother?
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I have been known to think outside of all rules. Even my own.
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I don't possess these thoughts I have --- they possess me. I don't possess these feelings I have --- They obsess me.
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A selfless act out of even the purest desire to do for others, will be selfish in the satisfaction and happiness it brings to one doing it.
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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.
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I'm pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls.
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Most of the pain we feel is nothing more than a story that needs telling.
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Don't be scared of scars. They just tell stories that are hard to hear.
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I think there were times when I was so afraid of losing you that I forgot I even had you at all.
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Dogs are how people would be if the important stuff is all that mattered to us.
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While it's true that I am guided in life by my feelings and emotions, that certainly does NOT mean that I trust them.Emotions are reactions to things based on all of a person's prior experiences and we forget sometimes just how limited those are.
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Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone.
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It's so hard to find the place somewhere in the middle of the best and worst I've felt.
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Just remember that those who feel profoundly depressed are those whose happiness is likewise intense. What's so wrong with that?
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It's always almost Autumn, down here at Rock Bottom.
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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.
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We may seem fine, even when the pain remains right there beneath our surface.
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Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My sadness is beautiful. It infuses everything I do. It is at the core of my identity and always has been, just as happiness is in some people. I refuse to be told that it's a flaw. I will not mute it with medications for the sake of society. I will hold it close to me and celebrate it rightfully while the rest of the world fails to see it for what it is and it will be their loss.
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The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else.
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