Shane Koyczan Quotes

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• Don't tell me that [broken heartstrings] hurt less than a broken bone, that an ingrown life is something surgeons can cut away, that there's no…
• To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.
• 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 if…
• Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.
• That’s what we were told—stand up for yourself. But that’s hard to do if you don’t know who you are.
• But we are more than genteel or civilized/ we are an idea in the process of being realized.
• 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
• I have loved this life. Â I smile because I have tiny dreams that play hopscotch at the corners of my mouth. Â And every…
• 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 not…
• Effort is the siamese twin of success
• My experiences with violence in schools still echo throughout my life but standing to face the problem has helped me in immeasurable ways,
• If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.
• You, me, this city, this country, we will always have a choice.When you stand up to be counted, tell the world, THIS IS MY VOICE.…
• Scrape the grey sky clean. Realize every grey cloud is a smoke screen to blind us from the truth, and the truth is whether we…
• I've been shot down so many times I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.
• I accept that today may be imperfect... I accept that I may be as well. What I don't accept is that imperfection should be the…
• I will not stop. I will not slow down. I will not pull over to ask for directions. I will build the road that takes…
• I accept any challenge, so challenge me
• Having seen TED from a distance, I always thought if ever there was a place for someone like me, the outcasts, people who maintained who…
• I make a good living doing what I do.

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