One thing I know for sure: it is only by doing what we fear that we can ever truly learn to be brave.
BEAR GRYLLSI grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.
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I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.
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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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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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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .
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You don’t need to go to the ends of the earth, you don’t need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it’s invariably on our doorstep.
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Why is it that the finish line always tends to appear just after the point at which we most want to give up? is it the universe’s way of reserving the best for those who can give the most? What I do know, from nature, is that the dawn only appears after the darkest hour.
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If you risk nothing you gain nothing
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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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Success almost always follows great attitude. The two attract each other!
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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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Dreams, though, are cheap, and the real task comes when you start putting in place the steps needed to make those dreams a reality.
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Always keep the big picture in mind- you are greatly loved by Jesus and your job is to love Him and others in return. The rest is detail.
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You can’t live someone else’s expectations in life. It’s a recipe for disaster.
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Survival can be summed up in three words – never give up. That’s the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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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.
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Survival is not about being fearless. It’s about making a decision, getting on and doing it, because I want to see my kids again, or whatever the reason might be.
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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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It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
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What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities
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Nothing inspires people more than reckless acts of courage.
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Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it’s done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all.
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The special forces gave me the self-confidence to do some extraordinary things in my life. Climbing Everest then cemented my belief in myself.
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It is only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.
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That feeling when you’re so cold you’d give anything to be warm – I’ve had it before, literally huddled around a candle flame on an ice sheet.
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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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