Alexi Pappas Quotes

But your body is like a pencil: if you sharpen it too much, it will break.

"Did you ever realize that funeral has the word
"fun" in it?"

"I was no longer down to "meet at 3-ish for a run somewhere", because I understood that the back-and-forth texting leading up to the run would cost me some willpower."

Headed to the moon not now but soon.

A dream come true unfolds very very gradually then all at once.

Grit is what’s left over when nothing’s left.

Good thing I didn’t accomplish all my goals yet because then what would I do tomorrow?

When you're depressed, it is very hard to love yourself. When you don't love yourself, it's hard to have a healthy relationship with someone else.

Run like a bravey, Sleep like a baby, Dream like a crazy, Replace can't with maybe.

Being a hero is a choice you can make, not a cape someone else will drape over you. You make your own cape.

[R]unning is really a team sport masked as an individual sport.

Life is not about reducing our pain to nothing, it is about embracing pain and challenge as an invitation to rise and grow.

A good coach does not worry about letting you grow up right in front of them. Because a good coach knows you will. That's what a coach does; They get you ready and then they let you go.

Chasing a dream isn't a right, it's a privilege - and it's more likely than not that, at first, it won't be financially sustainable on its own.

The only way to not be forever sad is to admit that we are, for the moment, sad.