Ashly Lorenzana

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

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

Some people are as angry as they seem to be only because it's the safest place to hide from more pain.

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.

By judging others, you make yourself easy to judge.

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.

If you manage to live long enough, most of your greatest fears become fond memories to look back on.

If you're not scared of the dark, it hasn't been dark enough.

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.

When you want to share something with another person more than anything, it is one of the most difficult things to realize that you can never have it. Accepting this realization is even more difficult. Loving someone does mean saying goodbye to them in some cases, though we will fight that until the oftentimes bitter end before doing the right thing.

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

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.

Experience is the opposite of education.

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

It's okay to disagree with the thoughts or opinions expressed by other people. That doesn't give you the right to deny any sense they might make. Nor does it give you a right to accuse someone of poorly expressing their beliefs just because you don't like what they are saying. Learn to recognize good writing when you read it, even if it means overcoming your pride and opening your mind beyond what is comfortable.

Anything at all is possible. Some things are unlikely. Some things will never happen. But they always could, at any time.

We judge others instantly by their clothes, their cars, their appearance, their race, their education, their social status. The list is endless. What gets me is that most people decide who another person is before they have even spoken to them. What's even worse is that these same people decide who someone else is, and don't even know who they are themselves.

To be full of yourself is to make a fool of yourself.