“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.” LifeFeelingsEmotionTrustExperience Author:Ashly Lorenzana
“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.” PeopleLifeIssuesIdentityConflictLegacyLong TermProblemsPersonalInner Struggle Author:Ashly Lorenzana
“I believe in energies. Good energy has served me well. Being fair with others, compassionate towards them, remaining humble, and making a difference to someone are just a few of the things that I have seen create good energy. Beautiful things. Human things. I do my best to surround myself with these types of things, to generate an atmosphere thick with such energy. It has kept me safe in many situations. I have taken risks in the past, and managed to avoid harm by the protection of the good energy I have created around me. I believe that ugliness creates more ugliness. And no matter how touched by ugliness you are, you do not have to give in to it and start spreading it beyond yourself. I have seen this sickness and what it does to a person, and those around them.” LifeHumanityEnergyCompassionExperienceHarmonySafetyGood Author:Ashly Lorenzana
“All we know is what we're told.” LifeRealityTruthKnowledgeAcceptanceTrustPerceptionSubjectivity Author:Ashly Lorenzana
“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.” LifeMoney Author:Ashly Lorenzana
“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.” LifeActionLawChoicesMoralityMoralsLegality Author:Ashly Lorenzana
“I'm not crying out for help, but I am sharing my experience in the hopes that readers will get something out of it. I'm not the one who gets to decide what that is, if anything. I'm just starting the "journey" if you will, so I can't possibly know yet what the "message" of my life really is. I only know what has happened so far, and how I've 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 can't save someone who doesn't want to be saved. You can't love someone who doesn't love themselves enough to take care of themselves and stay out of bad situations. Believe me, I know this.” LifeSexExperienceAddictionJournalDrugsProstitution Author:Ashly Lorenzana
“If you're not scared of the dark, it hasn't been dark enough.” LifeFearDarknessExperience Author:Ashly Lorenzana
