Quotes by Ashly Lorenzana

Im not crying out for help, but I am sharing my experience in the hopes that readers will get something out of it. Im not the one who gets to decide what that is, if anything. Im just starting the journey if you will, so I cant possibly know yet what the message of my life really is. I only know what has happened so far, and how Ive felt up until this moment. I agree that reading about the pain of others is concerning when they are still hurting and in the same situation as when they wrote about it. But what can you do? You can reach out, ask how you can help and be there to listen. You cant save someone who doesnt want to be saved. You cant love someone who doesnt love themselves enough to take care of themselves and stay out of bad situations. Believe me, I know this.

I think its better to be comfortable in your skin than to be miserable being who you are. Sure, the meth is horrible. It ruins people from the inside out. Its a waiting game --- its not a matter of if it destroys you, but rather a matter of when it will. Ive made it this far. Im not sending a message that its cool to be on drugs and tell everyone about it. I dont sum myself up as a drug addict and a hooker. Thats not what I am. Those are juts things I do, they dont define me. Jobs and addictions do not make us who we are.

What is the point of our lives? There isnt any. I cant 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.

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

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 its 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.

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.

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

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

Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these.

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

Its so hard to find the place somewhere in the middle of the best and worst Ive felt.

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

Its always almost Autumn, down here at Rock Bottom.

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.

Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once its gone.

While its 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 persons prior experiences and we forget sometimes just how limited those are.

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

I think there were times when I was so afraid of losing you that I forgot I even had you at all.

Dont 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.