Shane Koyczan Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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. 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.

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

A question like “do you love me?” was an itch our doctors told us not to scratch.

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

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

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

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

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

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

That’s what we were told—stand up for yourself. But that’s hard to do if you don’t know who you are.

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.

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

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

I accept any challenge, so challenge me

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

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. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

Effort is the siamese twin of success

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

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

I was never meant to be this thing.

I sit before flowers 
hoping they will train me in the art 
of opening up

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.

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

I make a good living doing what I do.