Shane Koyczan Quotes - Page 2

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

  Shane Koyczan

  Motivation, Inspiration, Sickness

  "To This Day ... for the bullied and beautiful". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

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• 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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  Stand Up For Yourself, Knows, Hard

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• 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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  Beautiful, Flower, Smell

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

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  Heart, Ribs, My Heart

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• Someone once told me that the finer points of devotion are about the size of a pinhole, and there are millions of them. And if you could connect each dot, then you’ve got a diagram of what you think you thought you knew, and if you’re willing to admit that you know nothing…you have the blueprint for a breakthrough.

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  Thinking, Dots, Size

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• 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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  Knowing, Comfort, Biology

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• 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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  Reflection, Mirrors, Looks

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• Effort is the siamese twin of success

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  Effort, Twins

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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 way for it to metastasize - it does.

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  Hurt, Cutting, Heartache

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

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  Addiction, Drug, Becoming

  "To This Day". Spoken word poem by Shane Koyczan (from the album "Remembrance Year"), 2012.

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

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  Doctors, Scratches, Do You Love Me

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• 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.

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  Country, Cities, Voice

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• I accept any challenge, so challenge me

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  Challenges, Accepting

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

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  Cheer, Underdog, Grew Up

  "To This Day ... for the bullied and beautiful". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2013.

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• You see, the deaf have an intimacy with silence. It’s there in their dreams.

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  Dream, Silence, Deaf

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

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  Ideas, Being Real, Process

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

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  Dark, Clouds, Sky

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• I was never meant to be this thing.

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  Meant To Be

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

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  Art, Flower, Opening Up

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• 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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  Distance, People, Outcast

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• 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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  School, Echoes, Way

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• I make a good living doing what I do.

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  Good Living

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