Alexi Pappas Quotes

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.

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

Racing is about understanding that pain is a sensation but no necessarily a threat, and if you continue to put one foot in front of the other you will break through your rough patch.

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

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.

I told my dad that I was sure I would feel depressed forever and that it would be embarrassing to continue living this way, so maybe it was better to just die. But then my dad said that being dead would be more embarrassing than being depressed.

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.

Headed to the moon not now but soon.

A life can’t be replicated and it doesn’t need to be.

I used to think that my Always Try Hard Rule was the only way to avoid becoming like my mom, but now I saw that blindly obeying this rule had in fact made me more like her than I ever wanted to be.

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

I learned that the time to make up my mind about what is possible is never.

I liked the feeling of winning. It made me feel like I mattered. All I’ve ever wanted in my life is to matter.

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.

A great coach once told me that when pain sets in during a workout, it takes less mental energy to push harder than it does to think about slowing down or stopping. I've found that to be true: Momentum matters, physically and mentally.