Impossible Quotes

“I want to encourage people: if you are a weirdo, just be a weirdo. There’s no point trying to be different to what you are. I just hope that whoever reads this book will feel like they can do anything, be anybody, and that they can learn to love more, forgive more. Love themselves more.”
― Stan Walker, Impossible: My Story

“Your past does not define your future. How you ever gonna change the world, if you can’t change yourself?”
― Stan Walker, Impossible: My Story

“Change takes years. It’s not a straight road — like, it doesn’t move smoothly forward, little by little. It’s more like circles. To forgive others means I have to be open and empathetic to others; but being open-hearted means being open to the possibility of hurt and pain. I still have my trust issues, a feeling that I need to guard myself. I guard my heart to protect my heart; I guard my heart out of old habits. I wonder about whether my trust issues contradict the forgiveness that I want to find in my heart. So that’s what I mean when I say: the journey is long and the road is not straight. I just try to have compassion, empathy and understanding — for other people, and for myself. I try; sometimes I fail. I ain’t Jesus. I’m only human.”
― Stan Walker, Impossible: My Story

“This is life, I’m just going to be forever growing.”
― Stan Walker, Impossible: My Story

“Self-love and self-respect power us to make good decisions for ourselves, but if that gets replaced by self-loathing then everything goes dark and our purpose gets lost in that darkness.”
― Stan Walker, Impossible: My Story

“Don’t believe what you see on social media. A performance is a performance.”
― Stan Walker, Impossible: My Story

“it doesn’t matter where you come from, when you come here you are one of us.”
― Stan Walker, Impossible: My Story

“I have a hunger to learn, to understand the world. And for me, knowing and understanding are not about my head — they are about my heart.”
― Stan Walker, Impossible: My Story

“To whom much is given, much is required.”
― Stan Walker, Impossible: My Story

“what is freedom but peace and grace. What is ‘home’ but serenity, joy and love.”
― Stan Walker, Impossible: My Story

“Don’t allow your knowledge to take away your heart.”
― Stan Walker, Impossible: My Story

“Empathy is more important than winning a debate.”
― Stan Walker, Impossible: My Story

“Meanwhile, most people at church were so caught up in gossip, in wanting to be right, they forgot their empathy.”
― Stan Walker, Impossible: My Story

“Now I believe it’s always better to talk honestly with people, to tell them what’s inside you, but it has to be the right people. You’ve got to be fully careful. You’ve got to know that you’re in safe hands.”
― Stan Walker, Impossible: My Story

“I always wanted love, security — the warmth of whānau.”
― Stan Walker, Impossible: My Story

“Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never hurt me. That’s the biggest lie. I know sticks and stones can break my bones. I can show you the scars. But just one word has the power to kill you inside, and those scars can’t ever be seen.”
― Stan Walker, Impossible: My Story

“The truth is, change is a long, hard process with many failures along the way.”
― Stan Walker, Impossible: My Story

“You can’t just move somewhere else and expect the problem to change. You’re the problem, and you take it with you wherever you go.”
― Stan Walker, Impossible: My Story

“Often it is those who deserve the most blame who also deserve the most compassion.”
― Stan Walker, Impossible: My Story

“Ever since I was a little kid I loved to sing. It was my comfort, the thing I did when I was by myself, when I was sad, when I was happy, when I was silly. When I was a child, and even a teenager, when times were the toughest and life seemed hopeless, I got comfort from singing myself to sleep. I found myself in singing.”
― Stan Walker, Impossible: My Story

“Akiaki te tī o te tangata Nurture the indescribable light in a person”
― Stan Walker, Impossible: My Story

“...but when we landed on the Gold Coast the heat was a whole other thing. It was so hot it shocked us when we got off the plane. And there was Pāpā, and we had our new beginning. But of course we didn't. You can't just move somewhere else and expect the problem to change. You're the problem, and you take it with you wherever you go. Be a drug dealer and a rip off and an abuser in New Zealand, you'll be exactly the same in Australia. It was all exactly the same, and the cops started coming around to get my dad, just like they did back home.”
― Stan Walker, Impossible: My Story