Beau Taplin

When you make the choice not to fight the currents of your feelings you allow them to take you where they need to and moving forward becomes a gentler process. Remember always to move at your own pace.

Before long, the passion wanes, the days and nights stretch on longer, and long silences take the place of laughter. 

You are never too old to remain young at heart.

In the sound of your laughter, I could hear a musicians’s hands skillfully caress the silver strings of a harp. And concealed deep beneath your cautious guard lay the slow croon of a saxophone alone on the smoky stage of a dimly lit bar.

Like sundown, the closer we came to the end, the more precious and breathtaking our bond seemed to become.

It could only have lasted a handful of moments, but as I searched your watchful gaze, something with the shape of recognition surged between us, and by the time it was over, we both agreed, we would know each other very well.

Live like this—with a full, hungry heart, and a curiousness that cannot be extinguished.

Faith is a tricky thing. We can never really know with absolute certainty whether we have placed it in the right or wrong hands until it’s too late.

The fact of it is, for sufferers of anxiety, there will always be more mountains to climb – a seemingly infinite number that can often span the length of a life – but trust in this: you will climb them over and over because you have to.

When a relationship works, it is effortless and fluid—a meticulously choreographed pirouette between two partnered souls in perfect balance. But like all intricately difficult things, perfection calls for study and practice.

A person’s love is not a raincoat you slip on only when it storms. It is more than some motor inn with the vacancy light switched on.

I am here because, with you, even the mundane is magic, because, with you, the true story far surpasses the fiction.

I will never ask you to sacrifice a thing in exchange for my heart.

I see now that our flaws and damages should not be ignored or desensitized but harnessed and embraced — that all of our quirks and qualities have a part to play in the greater scheme of our lives and should never be silenced or drowned out.

What I have begun to recognise in myself and others is that, more often than not, the fear of letting go isn’t really that at all, but a fear of trying again — it’s not really about the person you have left, but all of the uncertainty and possible disappointment that now lies on the road ahead of you.

Life is precious and incredibly fragile and must always be lived to the fullest.

It is no accident that a great many success stories begin with adversity. You’ll find you are capable of tremendous things when you are backed into a corner, when you are stripped of all hope and left with no other choice but to push on despite the odds stacked against you.

There has arguably never been a more remarkable and unusual time to be young, here, and alive.