Alexi Pappas Quotes

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.

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 feeling of being watched is the next best thing to being touched. It's like sunlight on your skin, as though the person watching you is giving you some part of themselves by way of their eyes.

Chasing a dream is a never-ending negotiation, as in, you have to keep navigating, pivoting, adapting, and persisting. It’s a process that unfolds continually and never in a straight line.

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

It is better to be a hundred percent healthy and eighty percent fit than a hundred percent fit and eighty percent healthy.

Willpower is a measurable and depletable resource. We make thousands of choices every day, and each of those choices uses up some portion of our willpower.

My brain created a personal law. […] The brain’s purpose is self-preservation. But the problem is the brain goes into overdrive and starts recognizes the personal law in places it shouldn’t. […] When we create a personal law in response to trauma, the law can become hardwired into your brain so strongly, that when you encounter even vaguely similar situations much later, your mind reacts with irrational intensity.

It’s called the Rule of Thirds. When you’re chasing a big goal, you’re supposed to feel good a third of the time, okay a third of the time, and crappy a third of the time. If the ratio is off and you feel good all the time, then you’re not pushing yourself enough. Likewise, if you feel bad all the time, then you might be fatigued and need to dial things back.

The only real mistake is knowing you need a change and not making it.

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

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

If you don't have a goal, the world might give you one. You will be like a leaf, blowing with every breeze and wholly affected by the world around you. You don't want to be a rock, either, unaffected by the world and inflexible in your thoughts. Rather, be a tree: keeping your roots firm but also being able to sense and adapt to the world around you.

If you find someone who pulls you out of the real world and makes you feel like the two of you are inside your own little snow globe, hold on to them.

She is kind to herself first.