Behinds Quote by Shane Koyczan

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

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

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.

— Shane Koyczan

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

Effort is the siamese twin of success

— Shane Koyczan

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

Look directly into every mirror. Realize our reflection is the first sentence to a story, and our story starts: We were here.

— Shane Koyczan

When something's painful, you just avoid it. Why bother dredging up the past if it's nothing but bad stuff?

— Shane Koyczan

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

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

“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

“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