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What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities

Bear Grylls

Christianity is not about religion. It’s about faith, about being held, about being forgiven. It’s about finding joy and finding home.
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Christianity Home Joy
Textbook survival says stay still, don’t take any chances, wait for rescue. That’s a boring TV show. My thing was always, “Listen, shoelace, dead squirrel and no other way down this rock face. You can do this!”
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Rocks Shows Squirrels TV
Above all, I feel a quiet pride that for the rest of my days I can look at myself in the mirror and know that once upon a time I was good enough. Good enough to call myself a member of the SAS. Some things don’t have a price tag.
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Mirrors Price Pride Tag
Nothing inspires people more than reckless acts of courage.
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Inspire People Reckless
The appeal of the wild for me is its unpredictability. You have to develop an awareness, react fast, be resourceful and come up with a plan and act on it.
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Appeals Awareness Come Up
You can’t become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There’s life in a nutshell.
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Fall Get Numbers Up
The rules of survival never change, whether you’re in a desert or in an arena.
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Arena Desert Survival
Adventure should be 80 percent ‘I think this is manageable,’ but it’s good to have that last 20 percent where you’re right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
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Adventure Thinking Travel
The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word – extra.
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Differences Littles Ordinary
The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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Death Determined Life Lines
A friend once asked me what qualities were needed for SAS. I would say to be self-motivated and resilient; to be calm, yet have the ability to smile when it is grim; to be unflappable, be able to react fast and to have an ‘improvise, adapt and overcome’ mentality.
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Overcoming Quality Self
Without risk, there can be no growth.
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Growth Happen Risk
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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Ends Feelings Planet
I hang out all the time with kids and young scouts and I never meet kids who don’t want adventure.
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Adventure Kids Want
You’re not human if you don’t feel fear. But I’ve learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It’s there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
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Emotion Giving Treat
It’s unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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Conflict Jobs Lovely

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