Top 68 Shane Koyczan Quotes

#1. My experiences with violence in schools still echo throughout my life but standing to face the problem has helped me in immeasurable ways,

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#2. The tiniest dream that you make happen is worth more than the biggest dream that you never attempt.

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#3. It's not about putting forth the questions, it's about accepting the answers we ask for.

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#4. Getting over it/ just means getting around it/ and sometimes/ you gotta go through it/ leave it torn and blasted apart

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#5. Everything she meant to say was
you've given a worth and happiness to my life
that I had no right to believe could ever exist

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#6. That's what we were told - stand up for yourself. But that's hard to do if you don't know who you are.

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#7. There's 6.5 billion people curled up like fists protesting death, but every breath we take has to be given back; a nine year old boy taught me that.

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#8. I think everybody gets bullied in their own way. Even athletes probably get it from their parents. To a degree everybody gets bullied.

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#9. Try. The tiniest dream that you try to make happen, is worth more than the biggest dream you never attempt.

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#10. She tells me about dreams. She says my dreams are helium and balloons, and I've made the mistake of letting go a few to many times, but I still got this one. Tied around my finger like a wedding ring because even though I don't believe in marriages, I'm gonna bring this one home.

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#11. We somehow must become what we are not, sacrificing what we are, to inherit the masquerade of what we will be.

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#12. We don't always get the answers we want, sometimes a simple look can haunt us enough to know some ghosts need their rest.

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#13. How can you hold your ground when everyone around you is trying to bury you beneath it?

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

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#15. I make a good living doing what I do.

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#16. I accept any challenge, so challenge me

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#17. 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 science. That biology explains the how, but love explains the why

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#18. Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.

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#19. We're all shipwrecked on this idea that everything has to be explained.

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#20. For me, growing up and going to school and not seeing any anti-bullying posters and not hearing people talk about bullying was very desolate.

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#21. If you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror.

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#22. The truth is there's not enough miracles to go around, kid. And there's too many people petitioning God for the winning lotto ticket. And for every answered prayer, there's a cricket with arthritis. And the only reason we can't find answers is because the search party didn't invite us.

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#23. I've been told that people in the army do more by 7:00 am than I do in an entire day But if I wake at 6:59 am and turn to you to trace the outline of your lips with mine I will have done enough and killed no one in the process.

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#24. He tried to kill himself in grade ten, when a kid who still had his mom and dad had the audacity to tell him 'Get over it'. As if depression is something that can be remedied by any of the contents in a first aid-kit.

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#25. Effort is the siamese twin of success

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#26. We are graduating members from the class of we made it, not the faded echoes of voices crying out names will never hurt me. Of course they did. But our lives will ever always continue to be a balancing act that has less to do with pain and more to do with beauty.

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#27. Bullying, to me, starts very small around the kindergarten age where the first thing we learn is to call each other names. Something so small can be so long lasting in someone's life.

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#28. This is my voice. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

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#29. 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 crutch I use to excuse myself from participating in joy.

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#30. Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.

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#31. I hid my heart under my bed because my mother said if you're not careful someday somebody's going to break it. Take it from me, under the bed is not a good hiding spot.

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#32. 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 the long drawn and heavy breaths of despair have at times been felt by everyone - that pain is part of the human condition and that alone makes you a legion.

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#33. To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.

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#34. Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.

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#35. When I was a kid, I used to think pork chops and karate chops were the same thing.

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#36. 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 way for it to metastasize - it does.

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#37. I do my best impression of a pen
and when every problem looks like a page
I commit ink to paper

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#38. You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It's there in their dreams.

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#39. For me, poetry was ... the fastest way to express what I was feeling, what I was going through.

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#40. We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.

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#41. A question like "do you love me?" was an itch our doctors told us not to scratch.

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#42. So if anyone ever tells you:
You're not good enough!
You're not smart enough!
Give up your foolish dream!
If anyone ever tells you to quit,
You got to make them wear a diaper on their mouth
Because, man, they're just talking shit.

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#43. My heart is a protest that I let rally against my ribs.

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#44. Scrape the grey sky clean, realize that every dark cloud is a smokescreen meant to blind us from the truth

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#45. I guess initially I was amazed that somebody would see something within my work that they could really relate to, but the more it's happened, the more people have come forward, I've really realized that we're all kind of going through the same thing at the same time.

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#46. I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.

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#47. I remember how my grandmother tried to explain our world to me she told me a story she said the ground and the sky love each other but they don't have arms so rain is how they hold one another.

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#48. I was never meant to be this thing...

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#49. You better dust off your etiquette, better sit like you did back at whatever grade that made it clear to you that your teachers are not your parents, and that any mess you made remains your responsibility.

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#50. I smile because there are tiny dreams that play hopscotch at the corners of my mouth, and every time I breathe they float and every time I laugh they fly kites.

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#51. 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 see them or not the sun and moon are still there, and always there is light.

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#52. 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 me where I want to be and I will drive, drive, drive. I will drive until the vehicle around me breaks down, falls apart and tumbles into useless debris ... and then I will walk.

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#53. When I was a kid, I was fascinated by space
And I learnt that time slows near a black hole.
Inside a black hole, time stops altogether.
Whether or not this theory will ever be proved,
I'm moved to believe this would be the perfect place to love someone.

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#54. 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 they are despite being told what they were, it was TED.

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#55. I've been shot down so many times I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.

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#56. 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 them three seconds of sight.

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

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#58. Look at an avalanche, and see that we are at our most powerful when we let go. Look at a flower, and see that we are at our most beautiful when we open up.

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#59. I don't want to turn any of this into poetry / but / you're so beautiful / flowers turn their heads to smell you

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#60. If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.
[Blueprint for a Breakthrough (2013)]

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#61. So men and women were born into workers
Because ideas like
Right and wrong
Get outweighed by need
Anytime you've got mouths to feed.

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#62. Please, sit in my sky and let me polish your shine.

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#63. We used to stay inside for recess
because outside was worse

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#64. We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity

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#65. I got bullied a lot when I was a kid, and because of that I thought for the most part that I didn't really have a childhood - I had to grow up so quick and there was no real enjoyment in that for me.

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#66. I have loved this life. I smile because I have tiny dreams that play hopscotch at the corners of my mouth. And every time I breathe they float, every time I laugh, they fly kites.

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#67. But we are more than genteel or civilized/ we are an idea in the process of being realized.

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#68. I sit before flowers
hoping they will train me in the art
of opening up
I stand on mountain tops believing
that avalanches will teach me to let go
I know
nothing
but I am here to learn.

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