Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
BEAR GRYLLSAs a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
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And Jesus, the heart of the Christian faith is the wildest, most radical guy you’d ever come across.
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Textbook survival tells you to stay put. Stop. Wait for rescue. Don’t take any risks. But there’d been a whole host of survival shows like that and I didn’t really want to do that.
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Many people find it hard to understand what it is about a mountain that draws men and women to risk their lives on her freezing, icy faces – all for a chance at that single, solitary moment on the top.
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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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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 only when You really STEP OUT of Your comfort zone that You GROW.
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Our fate is determined by how far we are prepared to push ourselves to stay alive – the decisions we make to survive. We must do whatever it takes to endure and make it through alive.
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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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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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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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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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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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Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
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That for me was a great liberator to realize that the show isn’t about me running around, jumping off stuff and flexing muscles, it’s about inspiring people. That makes me really happy.
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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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