Both faith and fear may sail into your harbor, but only allow faith to drop anchor.
BEAR GRYLLSMy best life lessons and education didn’t come from a classroom – they’ve come from the wild. How you act in the big moments, the ones that challenge you, scare you, tempt you, and force you to make the right decisions, is what defines you.
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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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The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I’d love 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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To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.
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One killer exercise that’s really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That’s my favourite. It’s such functional core strength, and that’s why I can climb up trees and down vines.
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I try and eat really healthy when I’m home, but I certainly don’t eat worms and snakes.
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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Many great people over the centuries have depended on their faith- it is a sign of great strength to need Jesus in your life.
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Exercise helps my back. If I don’t exercise, that’s when it starts to hurt. The pain is a good motivator to run and exercise.
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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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Being brave isn’t the absence of fear. Being brave is having that fear but finding a way through it.
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I think it’s fun running with dogs. They’re always so fit and fast.
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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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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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Americans are cool, if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They’ll pat you on the arm and say, ‘Hey kid, you’re all right’. Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.
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