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Beau Taplin

Beau Taplin

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I'm not looking for somebody who will whisper sweet nothings into my ear to feed the ravenous ego of my heart. But someone who can look me straight in the eye and say, I love you, whether you fail or fall, just as you are.

— Beau Taplin, T h e E g o

Love Right Person

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Do not call me perfect,

a lie is never a compliment.

Call me an erratic,

damaged

and insecure mess.

Then tell me that you

love me for it.

— Beau Taplin, You're a fucking wreck and I love you for it.

Imperfections Personality Acceptance self awareness Self & Identity acceptance by the people you love Love

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Home is not where you are from, it is where you belong. Some of us travel the whole world to find it. Others, find it in a person.

— Beau Taplin, Buried Light

Home Is A Feeling Warmth

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Softness is not weakness. It takes courage to stay delicate in a world this cruel.

— Beau Taplin, via twitter.com

Softness Courage Weakness

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A gentle reminder that your heart is a muscle and so should be exercised regularly. Love often and love deeply.

— Beau Taplin, Untitled

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We’re all so desperate to be understood, we forget to be understanding.

— Beau Taplin, U n d e r s t a n d i n g

Understanding Desperate

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It is a frightening thought, that in one fraction of a moment you can fall in the kind of love that takes a lifetime to get over.

— Beau Taplin, via www.goodreads.com

Love Thoughts frightening Falling In Love Forever love for a lifetime

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The hours between 12am and 6am
have a funny habit of making you feel
like you’re either on top of the world,
or under it.

— Beau Taplin, The Early Hours

Late Night Thoughts Comfort Time

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Self-love is an ocean and your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill over into the lives of the people you hold dear, but you must come first.

— Beau Taplin, self-love

Self-Love Contagious Positivity Relationship Love

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I am deathly afraid of almosts — of coming so very close to where I want to be in life that I can almost taste it, almost touch it, then falling just a little short.

— Beau Taplin, J u s t S h o r t

Almosts Almost Life Experiences reaching Dreams aspirations Goals

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Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest — thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.

— Beau Taplin, via www.beautaplin.com

Body & Soul Healing Self love

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One day, whether you are 14, 28 or 65, you will stumble upon someone who will start a fire in you that cannot die. However, the saddest, most awful truth you will ever come to find - is they are not always with whom we spend our lives.

— Beau Taplin, Hunting Season

Love Destiny Sadness Pain Heartache

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Why does it feel like your body is shutting down every time someone dear to you walks out of your life? Because love is a kind of nourishment. As necessary to our hearts as sustenance is to our health. And if all of a sudden it is taken away, the heart begins to consume itself.

— Beau Taplin, Beau Taplin

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Once someone has let you go emotionally, it's over, no matter how tightly or desperately you commit to hang on. Better to release yourself from the relationship with your dignity intact, than fight a losing battle and risk lasting damage to your heart.

— Beau Taplin, W i t h D i g n i t y

Love Love & Relationships Relationships breakup Breakup Advice dignity

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You bring out the best in me. I don’t mean better manners, or a sense of maturity, or whatever else this tired world expects of me. I mean you make me want to climb roofs, run wild and act inappropriately, take risks and pursue my dreams with passion and integrity. Around you, I start living.

— Beau Taplin, The Best In Me

In love Best Friends Wedding Vows Muse

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A relationship should not be measured in months or years. It's the calibre of the memories that matter. Their impact, their permanence, and the degree to which they change you. I've had relationships lasting years I can now scarcely recollect, and hours with others that feel like infinities.

— Beau Taplin, via GoodReads

Relationships Love

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We demand closure as though our lives were put together as neatly as novels, but the fact of the matter is they’re not. In real life, relationships are messy and poorly written, ending too early or too late, and sometimes in the middle of a sentence.

— Beau Taplin, N e a t l y A s N o v e l s

Moving On Letting Go Failed Relationship Truth About Love Closure

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I want somebody
with a sharp intellect
and a heart from hell.
somebody with
eyes like starfire
and a mouth with a kiss
like a bottomless well.
but mostly
I just want someone
who will love me.
when I do not
know how to love myself.

— Beau Taplin, Priorities

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Come over. I don’t really mind whether we talk for hours, get blind drunk, or sit in silence and look up to the stars. Sometimes, the world down here just gets a bit much, and I need to lose myself in someone’s company for a little while.

— Beau Taplin, C o m e O v e r

Intimacy Longing Love Relationship Companionship

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You’re important to me. I think if there’s anything that will last forever, it’s that. Whether we separate, stay in touch or rarely speak again, you will always be that little someone I really do care for, that I would sacrifice everything for to protect and keep safe.

— Beau Taplin, T h e P r o m i s e

Love Commitment

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True intimacy is more than fooling around with somebody you’re attracted to.
I want to share myself with somebody who will press her hands through the surface of my skin, curl herself up inside my soul and say, Here, this is who I am.

— Beau Taplin, Beau Taplin on Tumblr

Love Intimacy Cuddles Deep

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There are a few things in life so beautiful they hurt: swimming in the ocean while it rains, reading alone in empty libraries, the sea of stars that appear when you’re miles away from the neon lights of the city, bars after 2am, walking in the wilderness, all the phases of the moon, the things we do not know about the universe, and you.

— Beau Taplin, And You

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All the universe laboured to bring us together. The rest is up to us.

— Beau Taplin, Effort, Understanding, Patience

Universe Destiny Fate

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You don't know distance until you've shared your bed with somebody who's falling out of love with you.

— Beau Taplin, via Twitter

Distance Love Falling Out Of Love Heartbreak Growing Pains Midlife Crisis Sad Pain of Heartbreak

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It seems the more time and distance you put between us, the larger you grow in my heart.

— Beau Taplin, ‘Simple Equation’

Distance Time Missing Someone Sadness Long Distance Relationships

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