To me, adventure has always been to me the connections and bounds you create with people when you’re there. And you can have that anywhere.
BEAR GRYLLSWhat I’ve learned over the years is that the path less traveled always makes for a more interesting journey. If you simply do what everyone else is doing, how can you ever expect to excel and create something wonderful and unique in your life?
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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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I grew up on survival shows and they were always just so…anoraky.
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As a society, we’ve become terrified of failure, but you can’t grow without risking it.
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I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.
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Change the way you use your time, and you change your life.
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The only difference between ‘try’ and ‘triumph’ is varying degrees of ‘umph’
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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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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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But the wild is unpredictable, stuff does happen, and it’s always when you’re least expecting it.
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The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I’d love to do.
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It is 100% natural, is whole food based, and I love the fact that it provides raw, anti-oxidant fruit and veg in a capsule form. For me it fulfills a key part of my nutrition, training and recovery needs.
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I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I’ve been doing that from a very young age.
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Life is an adventure that is best lived boldly
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Life has taught me to be very cautious of a man with a dream, especially a man who has teetered on the edge of life. It gives a fire and recklessness inside that is hard to quantify.
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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I always wanted to be Robin Hood or John the Baptist when I was growing up.
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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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I learnt another valuable lesson that night: listen to the quiet voice inside. Intuition is the noise of the mind.
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Unless you have shelter, fire is going to be very hard and if you have fire, but no water, you’re going to die. They’re all super important.
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Well, wolves will pretty rarely hunt. You’re vulnerable if you’re on your own or injured. But for lone wolves, get up high, show them that you’re not injured, face ’em off, be authoritarian with it, and look ’em in the eye.
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There’s no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It’s all about heart.
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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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Live a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.
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I miss him still today: his long, whiskery eyebrows, his huge hands and hugs, his warmth, his prayers, his stories, but above all his shining example of how to live and how to die.
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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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I didn’t want to do eight seasons of How To Build A Fire. The intention was to make something fun and dynamic and about self rescue, not about whittling.
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