For me, poetry was... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through. — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
I hid my heart under my bed because my mother said if you're not careful someday somebody's going to break it. Take… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
Bullying, to me, starts very small around the kindergarten age where the first thing we learn is to call each other names.… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
I got bullied a lot when I was a kid, and because of that I thought for the most part that I… — Shane Koyczan Copy Share Image
For me, growing up and going to school and not seeing any anti-bullying posters and not hearing people talk about bullying was… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
