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Spoken Word Artist Inspirational Quotes (35)

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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.
Shane Koyczan
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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.
Shane Koyczan
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We grew up learning to cheer on the underdog because we see ourselves in them.
Shane Koyczan
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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.
Shane Koyczan
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We come from the mentality, that rarely sees the horror in symmetry or the beauty in non-conformity
Shane Koyczan
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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.
Shane Koyczan
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If you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror.
Shane Koyczan
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To discover the thing you're brilliant at you first have to endure realizing all the things you're average at.
Shane Koyczan
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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.
Shane Koyczan
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I was 12 when I started playing guitar with my brothers.
Tom Chapin
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It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat backstage he handed me his guitar. I played it, loved it, and then found out that he'd made it himself.
Tom Chapin
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A question like “do you love me?” was an itch our doctors told us not to scratch.
Shane Koyczan
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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.
Shane Koyczan
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We're all shipwrecked on this idea that everything has to be explained.
Shane Koyczan
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We so seldom understand each other. But if understanding is neither here nor there, and the universe is infinite, then understand that no matter where we go we will always be smack dab in the middle of nowhere. All we can do is share some piece of ourselves, and hope that it’s remembered. Hope that we meant something to someone
Shane Koyczan
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I you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror. Look a little closer, stare a little longer. Because there is something inside you that made you keep trying despite everyone who told you to quit. You built a cast around your broken heart and signed it yourself, you signed it THEY WERE WRONG.
Shane Koyczan
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Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.
Shane Koyczan
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My heart is a protest that I let rally against my ribs.
Shane Koyczan
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Groundhog Day is a lot like a rock concert but the people are better behaved and there's a groundhog involved.
Tom Chapin
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I've been shot down so many times, I get altitude sickness just from standing up for myself.
Shane Koyczan
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I've tried to live my life right, just like a story.
Angela Sidney
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Seems like I've been here before, can't remember when I get this funny feeling, we'll be together again No straight lines make up my life, all my roads have bends No clearcut beginnings so far, no dead ends.
Tom Chapin
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Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.
Shane Koyczan
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Why does everyone think a guy who prefers love to people is missing something in his life?
Slash Coleman
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