I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
BEAR GRYLLSLive a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.
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It can be hard to explain. But I also relate to the quote that says, Iif you have to ask, you will never understand.
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Alpha was the best thing I ever did. It helped answer some huge questions and to find a simple empowering faith in my life.
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One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.
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All my life the only thing I’ve been good at has been climbing and throwing myself off big things.
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I do see a lot of the hard end of ecology, and my feeling is that we live on a super-exciting planet but a super-fragile one.
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If you risk nothing you gain nothing
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Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It’s about doing whatever it takes – and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
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The lesson is, the rewards in life don’t always go to the biggest, or the bravest, or the smartest. The rewards go to the dogged; and when your going though hell, to the person who just keeps going.
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The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.
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I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn’t religious.
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I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .
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Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.
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Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous – but divorced. I’m always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.
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When I’m in ‘Man vs. Wild’ mode, it’s not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I’m on reserve power all the time and I’m digging deep – and that’s the magic of it as well, and that’s raw and it’s great.
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Sometimes it’s hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn’t just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.
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