Alexi Pappas Quotes

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

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.

"That's what being a Bravey is - you are making a conscious choice to tell yourself what you'd like to be until it becomes a part of you. You choose to replace "can't" with "maybe" by acknowledging your feelings, but focusing on your actions. Your actions encompass everything from what you do with your time, to who you surround yourself with, to the words you feed your mind. To know you can do this for yourself is the most powerful thing in the world."

Discipline, I learned, just means making choices in favor of your goals. It doesn't mean you're un-chill; it means you know what you want.

There's no escaping the hard truth that each of us has a fixed amount of willpower, a certain amount of ability to deal with the shit the world throws at us, and no amount of trying and straining can give us more.

She is kind to herself first.

"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."

I once read that the chances of any person being born as themselves instead of as a different genetic combination is estimated to be the same as if two million people rolled a trillion-sided die and all got the same number. We are who we are. We are all little marvels.

It helped that Jeremy didn't know anything about track and field. We had lots in common, but not everything in common. ... His unfamiliarity with the running world allowed me to chase my dream without it meaning anything to him beyond how happy it was making me. I was free to explore my potential in the running world without the pressure of anyone's expectations - just pure support.

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

The most important thing we can do with regard to our goals is to have integrity: Simply put, we should always want to try our best.

Feeling seen and understood is the most wonderful thing because it gives you the gift of confidence.

You can be one thing or two or three; you can be the beauty and the beast.

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

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