Our lives will only ever always continue to be a balancing act, that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
Maybe the best we can hope for is that those we leave behind find comfort in knowing, that we’re born out of love, and… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share
If you think for one second no one knows what you've been going through; be accepting of the fact that you are wrong, that… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share
I'm not the only kid who grew up this way, surrounded by people who used to say that rhyme about sticks and stones, as… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share
I have loved this life. I smile because I have tiny dreams that play hopscotch at the corners of my mouth. And every time… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share
Don't tell me you're not beautiful. You're the kind of beautiful the blind would see if we could figure out some way to give… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share
Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here. — Shane Koyczan Copy Share
When something's painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it's nothing but bad stuff? — Shane Koyczan Copy Share
I think everybody gets bullied in their own way. Even athletes probably get it from their parents. To a degree everybody gets bullied. — Shane Koyczan Copy Share
Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share
“Beethoven his thoughts moving at the speed of sound transforming emotion into music and for a moment it was like joy was a tangible… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share
“He tried to kill himself in grade ten, when a kid who still had his mom and dad had the audacity to tell him… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share
