205 quotes
"Hard things will happen to us. We will recover. We will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it."
- Taylor Swift
Resilience
""Life can be heavy if you carry it all at once. Know what to keep and what to release. Decide what is yours to hold, and let all the other things go.""
- Taylor Swift
Balance
""No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.""
- Taylor Swift
Compassion
""You will screw it up sometimes.""
- Taylor Swift
Failure
"Isn't it just so pretty to think all along there was some invisible string tying you to me?"
- Taylor Swift
Love
"I've never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I've only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up."
- Taylor Swift
Creativity
"It’s so devastating to come to terms with speaking of someone in past tense when you used to see them as your present and your future."
- Taylor Swift
Adversity
"When I figured out how to work my grill, it was quite a moment. I discovered that summer is a completely different experience when you know how to grill."
- Taylor Swift
Personal Growth
"This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change."
- Taylor Swift
New Beginnings
"I just want you to know that if you are out there and you are being really hard on yourself right now for something that has happened ... it's normal. That is what is going to happen to you in life. No one gets through unscathed. We are all going to have a few scratches on us. Please be kind to yourselves and stand up for yourself, please."
- Taylor Swift
Compassion
"We are never ever, ever getting back together."
- Taylor Swift
Empowerment
"Everyone loves their mom; everyone’s got an important mom, but for me, she’s really the guiding force."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind."
- Taylor Swift
Compassion
"Love you to the moon and to Saturn."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"I wish all teenagers could filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol."
- Taylor Swift
Awareness
"Live your life like you are 80 years old looking back on your teenage years."
- Taylor Swift
Reflection
"I think that one thing that I do believe as a feminist is that in order for us to have gender equality we have to stop making it a girl fight and we have to stop being so interested in seeing girls trying to tear each other down, it has to be more about cheering each other on as women."
- Taylor Swift
Connection to Earth
"The people who are the most successful in this world are the ones who don’t stop asking questions, who don’t stop being curious, and who don’t stop searching for the truth."
- Taylor Swift
Knowledge
"To me, “FEARLESS” is not the absence of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. To me, FEARLESS is having fears. FEARLESS is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, FEARLESS is living in spite of those things that scare you to death. FEARLESS is falling madly in love again, even though you’ve been hurt before. FEARLESS is walking into your freshmen year of high school at fifteen. FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again… even though every time you’ve tried before, you’ve lost. It’s FEARLESS to have faith that someday things will change. FEARLESS is having the courage to say goodbye to someone who only hurts you, even if you can’t breathe without them. I think it’s FEARLESS to fall for your best friend, even though he’s in love with someone else. And when someone apologizes to you enough times for things they’ll never stop doing, I think it’s FEARLESS to stop believing them. It’s FEARLESS to say “you’re NOT sorry”, and walk away. I think loving someone despite what people think is FEARLESS. I think allowing yourself to cry on the bathroom floor is FEARLESS. Letting go is FEARLESS. Then, moving on and being alright…That’s FEARLESS too. But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have to believe in love stories and prince Charmings and happily ever after. That’s why I write these songs. Because I think love is FEARLESS."
- Taylor Swift
Courage
"Life isn't how to survive the storm, it's about how to dance in the rain."
- Taylor Swift
Happiness
"If you're lucky enough to be different, never change."
- Taylor Swift
Self-confidence
"I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me."
- Taylor Swift
Integrity
"I’m intimidated by the fear of being average."
- Taylor Swift
Ambition
"The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now."
- Taylor Swift
Learning
"And when someone apologizes to you enough times for things they'll never stop doing, I think it's FEARLESS to stop believing them. It's FEARLESS to say "you're NOT sorry" and walk away."
- Taylor Swift
Courage
"Being FEARLESS isn't being 100% Not FEARFUL, it's being terrified but you jump anyway..."
- Taylor Swift
Courage
"Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone."
- Taylor Swift
Compassion
"I've wanted one thing for me whole life and I'm not going to be that girl who wants one thing her whole life then gets it and complains."
- Taylor Swift
Goals
"Just be yourself, there is no one better."
- Taylor Swift
Self-confidence
"Giving up doesn't always mean you're weak, sometimes you're just strong enough to let go."
- Taylor Swift
Resilience
"FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again....even though every time you've tried before you've lost."
- Taylor Swift
Perseverance
"Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life, saying the right thing at the right moment is beyond crucial. So crucial, in fact, that most of us start to hesitate, for fear of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. But lately what I've begun to fear more that that is letting the moment pass without saying anything. I think most of us fear reaching the end of our life, and looking back, regretting the moments we didn't speak up. When we didn't say "I love you." When we should've said "I'm Sorry." When we didn't stand up for ourselves or some one who needed help."
- Taylor Swift
Awareness
"I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list."
- Taylor Swift
Personal Growth
"People are going to judge you anyway, so you might as well do what you want."
- Taylor Swift
Empowerment
"You're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry."
- Taylor Swift
Relationships
"You can walk away and say "We don't need this." but something in your eyes says "We can beat this.”"
- Taylor Swift
Resilience
"So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine."
- Taylor Swift
Positivity
"Giving up doesn't always mean you're weak sometimes you're just strong enough to let go."
- Taylor Swift
Resilience
"I love these people so much and getting to go out there to look them in the eye and tell them that is my favorite part of the night."
- Taylor Swift
Connection to Earth
"In the absence of fear, there is little room for bravery."
- Taylor Swift
Bravery
"You are not the opinion of someone who doesn’t know you."
- Taylor Swift
Self-awareness
"We don’t need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful."
- Taylor Swift
Respect
"You can be the best version of yourself, no matter what other people think."
- Taylor Swift
Self-improvement
"To me, fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death."
- Taylor Swift
Courage
"Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life, saying the right thing at the right moment is beyond crucial."
- Taylor Swift
Awareness
"You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience."
- Taylor Swift
Adversity
"Love story? No, this is my story."
- Taylor Swift
Personal Growth
"We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls gets broken."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"The only words you’ll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone."
- Taylor Swift
Forgiveness
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"Never be ashamed of trying. Effortlessness is a myth."
- Taylor Swift
Motivation
"You are your own definition of beautiful and worthwhile."
- Taylor Swift
Self-esteem
"A lot of things are easier in life when you accept that you can’t control everything."
- Taylor Swift
Balance
"Just because something is over doesn’t mean it wasn’t incredibly beautiful."
- Taylor Swift
Reflection
"There’s a moment when you get home, and you just sit there and reflect on the day. That’s when you start thinking about who you are, who you want to be, and where you want to go."
- Taylor Swift
Self-awareness
"I think fearless is having fears but jumping anyway."
- Taylor Swift
Courage
"Books train your mind to imagination to think big."
- Taylor Swift
Creativity
"I could build a castle out of all the bricks they threw at me."
- Taylor Swift
Resilience
"In a relationship, each person should support the other; they should lift each other up."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"Time, wondrous time, gave me the blues and then purple-pink skies… And isn't it just so pretty to think all along there was some invisible string tying you to me?"
- Taylor Swift
Love
"When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someone, time seems to be moving faster."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"You are the best thing, that’s ever been mine."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"it wasn't for books that I loved as a kid. I think that when you can escape into a book it trains your imagination to think big and to think that more can exist than what you see."
- Taylor Swift
Imagination
"Love tends to end in a very painful goodbye."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"He said the way my blue eyes shine put those Georgia stars to shame that night. I said, 'That's a lie.'"
- Taylor Swift
Love
"There were times, in middle school and junior high, I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always."
- Taylor Swift
Connection to Earth
"You are the best thing that's ever been mine."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"Beneath the chandelier of stars and atmosphere, tangled like the roots on the ground. The windows opened up, the wind is blowing and we're both not making a sound. It's like I'm melting on into you."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"You will always be criticized and teased and bullied for things that make you different, but usually those things will be what set you apart. The things that set you apart from the pack, the things that you once thought were your weaknesses will someday become your strengths."
- Taylor Swift
Empowerment
"There were times when…I didn’t have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always."
- Taylor Swift
Relationships
"The one we danced to all night long, the moon like a spotlight on the lake."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"Other women who are killing it should motivate you, thrill you, challenge you and inspire you."
- Taylor Swift
Empowerment
"Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear."
- Taylor Swift
Happiness
"People haven’t always been there for me, but music always has."
- Taylor Swift
Connection to Earth
"Being fearless isn’t being 100% not fearful, it’s being terrified but you jump anyway."
- Taylor Swift
Courage
"I wouldn't be a songwriter if it wasn't for books that I loved as a kid. I think that when you can escape into a book it trains your imagination to think big and to think that more can exist than what you see."
- Taylor Swift
Creativity
"You need to be happy with yourself or you'll never be able to be happy in a relationship."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"My parents moved across the country so I could pursue a dream."
- Taylor Swift
Aspirations
"I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place."
- Taylor Swift
Compassion
"Life is like walking, you take one step at a time."
- Taylor Swift
Balance
"Never compare yourself to the beautiful girls. There's always someone gorgeous who will make you feel like you're not."
- Taylor Swift
Self-esteem
"I've never felt like there's just one way to be beautiful."
- Taylor Swift
Self-esteem
"Unique and different is the new generation of beautiful. You don't have to be like everyone else."
- Taylor Swift
Self-improvement
"Beauty is sincerity. There are so many different ways someone can be beautiful."
- Taylor Swift
Self-esteem
"I'm not opposed to falling in love."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"I suffer from girl-next-door-itis where the guy is friends with you and that's it."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"I’ve learned that you can’t predict [love] or plan for it. For someone like me who is obsessed with organization and planning, I love the idea that love is the one exception to that. Love is the one wild card."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"In high school, I used to think it was like sooooo cool if a guy had an awesome car. Now none of that matters. These days I look for character, and honesty, and trust."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"I write songs about my adventures and misadventures, most of which concern love. Love is a tricky business. But if it wasn't, I wouldn't be so enthralled with it. Lately I've come to a wonderful realization that makes me even more fascinated by it: I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to love. No one does! There's no pattern to it, except that it happens to all of us, of course. I can't plan for it. I can't predict how it'll end up. Because love is unpredictable and it's frustrating and it's tragic and it's beautiful. And even though there's no way to feel like I'm an expert at it, it's worth writing songs about -- more than anything else I've ever experienced in my life."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"I love you like I love sparkles and having the last word. And that's real love."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complicated thing. But it seems like every once in a while, two people get it figured out, two people get it right. And so I think the rest of us, we walk around daydreaming about what that might be like. To find that one great love, where all of a sudden everything that seemed to be so complicated, became simple. And everything that used to seem so wrong all of a sudden seemed right because you were with the person who made you feel fearless."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"Why leave when you can stay, why stay if you have to go?"
- Taylor Swift
Love
"If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"Just because as human beings, what we can't have is what we reply in our head over and over again before we go to sleep."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"We should love, not fall in love because everything that falls breaks."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"Throughout all of the changes that have happened in my life, one of the priorities I've had is to never change the way I write songs and the reasons I write songs. I write songs to help me understand life a little more. I write songs to get past things that cause me pain. And I write songs because sometimes life makes more sense to me when it's being sung in a chorus, and when I can write it in a verse."
- Taylor Swift
Creativity
"People haven't always been there for me, but music always has."
- Taylor Swift
Creativity
"Everybody has that point in their life where you hit a crossroads and you've had a bunch of bad days and there's different ways you can deal with it and the way I dealt with it was I just turned completely to music."
- Taylor Swift
Creativity
"I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol."
- Taylor Swift
Creativity
"If you write, you can turn your lessons into your legacy."
- Taylor Swift
Creativity
"Believe in Love: Real love still happens sometimes. It’s not just something we make up when we’re nine. I have to believe that. You do too."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"Be Strong: Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didn’t need a man; be that girl who never backed down."
- Taylor Swift
Courage
"Know Yourself: I think it’s important to be self-aware about what people are saying about you, but even more so, be very aware of who you actually are, and to have that be the main priority."
- Taylor Swift
Self-awareness
"Embrace the Uncertainty: I’ve learned that you can’t predict [love] or plan for it. For someone like me who is obsessed with organization and planning, I love the idea that love is the one exception to that. Love is the one wild card."
- Taylor Swift
Adaptation
"Speak Up: Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life, saying the right thing at the right moment is beyond crucial. So crucial, in fact, that most of us start to hesitate, for fear of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. But lately what I’ve begun to fear more than that is letting the moment pass without saying anything."
- Taylor Swift
Courage
"Do Your Best: In the grand scheme of things, I’m living a life… I know I’m going to make mistakes. I’m just going to try to handle those mistakes as a good person. The perception of you is going to change daily when you do what I do, but I just want to end up knowing in my heart that I did that right thing and tried my best, and if you mess up, hopefully it teaches you something."
- Taylor Swift
Personal Growth
"Overcome Your Fears: To me, Fearless is not the absence of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death."
- Taylor Swift
Courage
"Say “I Love You” More: I think most of us fear reaching the end of our life, and looking back, regretting the moments we didn’t speak up. When we didn’t say ‘I love you.’ When we should’ve said ‘I’m sorry.’ When we didn’t stand up for ourselves or someone who needed help."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"Be the New Generation: Unique and different is the new generation of beautiful."
- Taylor Swift
Self-esteem
""I wouldn't be a songwriter if it wasn't for books that I loved as a kid. I think that when you can escape into a book it trains your imagination to think big and to think that more can exist than what you see.""
- Taylor Swift
Creativity
"There’s a fire inside of you that can’t help but shine through."
- Taylor Swift
Belief in Self
"Giving up doesn’t always mean you’re weak. Sometimes you’re just strong enough to let go."
- Taylor Swift
Strength
"Autumn leaves falling down like pieces into place / And I can picture it after all these days."
- Taylor Swift
Reflection
"We’re happy, free, confused, and lonely at the same time."
- Taylor Swift
Balance
"Being alone is not the same as being lonely. I like to do things that glorify being alone. I buy a candle that smells pretty, turn down the lights and make a playlist of low-key songs. If you don’t act like you’ve been hit by the plague when you’re alone on a Friday night, and just see it as a chance to have fun by yourself, it’s not a bad day."
- Taylor Swift
Self-care
"August slipped away into a moment in time, 'cause it was never mine."
- Taylor Swift
Reflection
"But I can see us lost in the memory August slipped away into a moment in time ‘Cause it was never mine And I can see us twisted in bedsheets August sipped away like a bottle of wine ‘Cause you were never mine"
- Taylor Swift
Reflection
"But I can see us lost in the memory, August slipped away into a moment in time."
- Taylor Swift
Reflection
"My dad believed in me, even when I didn't. He always knew I could do this."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"Don't know how long it's gonna take to feel okay. But I know I had the best day with you today. I have an excellent father. His strength is making me stronger."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"You replace these old habits with new habits, like texting your friends in a group chat all day and planning fun dinner parties and going out on adventures with your girlfriends, and then all of a sudden one day you're in London and you realize you've been in the same place as your ex for two weeks and you're fine. And you hope he's fine."
- Taylor Swift
Healing
"And I don’t know why / But with you I’d dance in a storm / in my best dress, fearless."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"Can I go where you go? / Can we always be this close, forever and ever?"
- Taylor Swift
Love
"Life can be heavy if you carry it all at once. Know what to keep and what to release. Decide what is yours to hold, and let all the other things go."
- Taylor Swift
Balance
"And I don't know why but with you, I'd dance in a storm, in my best dress, fearless"
- Taylor Swift
Bravery
"Never be so kind, you forget to be clever; Never be so clever, you forget to be kind Never be so polite, you forget your power; Never wield such power, you forget to be polite"
- Taylor Swift
Balance
"We're happy free confused and lonely in the best way, it's miserable and magical oh yeah; tonight's the night when we forget about the heartbreaks, it's time. Everything will be alright if we just keep dancing like we're 22"
- Taylor Swift
Happiness
"Everything you lose is a step you take. So make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it, you've got no reason to be afraid; You're on your own, kid, yeah, you can face this"
- Taylor Swift
Courage
"Best believe I'm still bejeweled when I walk in the room, I can still make the whole place shimmer"
- Taylor Swift
Self-confidence
"My smile is like I won a contest, and to hide that would be so dishonest; and it's fine to fake it 'til you make it, 'til you do, 'til it's true"
- Taylor Swift
Self-improvement
"If they don’t like you for being yourself, be yourself even more."
- Taylor Swift
Belief in Self
"Being fearless isn't being 100% not fearful, it's being terrified but you jump anyway."
- Taylor Swift
Bravery
"Giving up doesn't always mean your weak. Sometimes you're just strong enough to let go."
- Taylor Swift
Strength
"As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger."
- Taylor Swift
Happiness
"I think the perfection of love is that it’s not perfect."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"You are the only one who gets to decide what you will be remembered for."
- Taylor Swift
Responsibility
"No one has the right to criticise you for how your body looks, but they will. One thing I’ve learned from experiencing this exact kind of criticism is that no one else can label your body except for you. No one gets to have a place in your mind if they weren’t invited there by you. So please do me this one favour: Don’t let their ugly words into your beautiful mind."
- Taylor Swift
Self-esteem
"There are two ways you can go with pain: You can let it destroy you or you can use it as fuel to drive you."
- Taylor Swift
Resilience
"I wouldn’t be a songwriter if it wasn’t for books that I loved as a kid. I think that when you can escape into a book it trains your imagination to think big and to think that more can exist than what you see."
- Taylor Swift
Creativity
"It's a love story, baby just say 'yes.'"
- Taylor Swift
Love
"My heart’s been borrowed and yours has been blue. All’s well that ends well to end up with you."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"Guess the worst day of June was the one where I met you."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"Life is full of new beginnings, and a new year is the perfect time to start something new."
- Taylor Swift
New Beginnings
"I love the scents of winter! For me, its all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce."
- Taylor Swift
Joy
"You kept me like a secret, but I kept you like an oath."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"They say that home is where the heart is, but that’s not where mine lives."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"They told me all of my cages were mental, so I got wasted like all my potential"
- Taylor Swift
Adversity
"Take me back to the time when we walked down the aisle, our whole town came and our mamas cried."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"To me, “Fearless” is not the absence of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. To me, fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death."
- Taylor Swift
Courage
"Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun."
- Taylor Swift
Creativity
"Happiness and confidence are the prettiest things you can wear"
- Taylor Swift
Happiness
"To me, ‘Fearless’ is not the absence of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. To me, fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death."
- Taylor Swift
Bravery
"I'll paint the kitchen neon, I'll brighten up the sky / I know I'll never get it, there's not a day that I won't try / And I'll say to you / Ooh, soon you'll get better."
- Taylor Swift
Hope
"To me, fearless doesn’t mean you’re completely unafraid, and it doesn’t mean that you’re bulletproof. It means that you have a lot of fears, but you jump anyway."
- Taylor Swift
Bravery
"I love the scents of winter! For me, its all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce."
- Taylor Swift
Joy
"Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye You were bigger than the whole sky You were more than just a short time And I’ve got a lot to pine about I’ve got a lot to live without I’m never gonna meet What could’ve been, would’ve been What should’ve been you What could’ve been, would’ve been you"
- Taylor Swift
Gratitude
"We all make mistakes in love. The key is to learn and not make the same mistake twice."
- Taylor Swift
Learning from Mistakes
"There's room for role models who make mistakes."
- Taylor Swift
Inspiration
"You can't spell 'awesome' without 'me'."
- Taylor Swift
Belief in Self
"And there's a dazzling haze, a mysterious way about you dear/Have I known you 20 seconds or 20 years?"
- Taylor Swift
Love
"Stay true to yourself because there are very few people who will always be true to you."
- Taylor Swift
Belief in Self
"If they don't like you for being yourself, be yourself even more."
- Taylor Swift
Self-confidence
"November flush and your flannel cure."
- Taylor Swift
Reflection
"Gray November I’ve been down since July Motion capture Put me in a bad light"
- Taylor Swift
Reflection
"Gray November, I've been down since July."
- Taylor Swift
Adversity
"I recall late November"
- Taylor Swift
Reflection
"It's so much colder than I thought it would be"
- Taylor Swift
Reflection
"I love the scents of winter! For me, it’s all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce."
- Taylor Swift
Joy
"It's a cruel summer with you."
- Taylor Swift
Adversity
"But I can see us lost in the memory, August slipped away into a moment in time…"
- Taylor Swift
Reflection
"Gave my blood, sweat, and tears for this."
- Taylor Swift
Hard Work
"I just want you to know that if you are out there and you are being really hard on yourself right now for something that has happened...it's normal. That is what is going to happen to you in life. No one gets through unscathed. We are all going to have a few scratches on us. Please be kind to yourselves and stand up for yourself, please."
- Taylor Swift
Self-care
"Being alone is not the same as being lonely. I like to do things that glorify being alone. I buy a candle that smells pretty, turn down the lights and make a playlist of low-key songs. If you don't act like you've been hit by the plague when you're alone on a Friday night, and just see it as a chance to have fun by yourself, it's not a bad day."
- Taylor Swift
Self-care
"I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another. It's been going on for quite some time now, without me knowing it. I've found that growing up can mean a lot of things. For me, it doesn't mean I should become somebody completely new and stop loving the things I used to love. It means I've just added more things to my list. Like for example, I'm still beyond obsessed with the winter season and I still start putting up strings of lights in September. I still love sparkles and grocery shopping and really old cats that are only nice to you half the time. I still love writing in my journal and wearing dresses all the time and staring at chandeliers. But some new things I've fallen in love with -- mismatched everything. Mismatched chairs, mismatched colors, mismatched personalities. I love spraying perfumes I used to wear when I was in high school. It brings me back to the days of trying to get a close parking spot at school, trying to get noticed by soccer players, and trying to figure out how to avoid doing or saying anything uncool, and wishing every minute of every day that one day maybe I'd get a chance to win a Grammy. Or something crazy and out of reach like that. ;) I love old buildings with the paint chipping off the walls and my dad's stories about college. I love the freedom of living alone, but I also love things that make me feel seven again. Back then naivety was the norm and skepticism was a foreign language, and I just think every once in a while you need fries and a chocolate milkshake and your mom. I love picking up a cookbook and closing my eyes and opening it to a random page, then attempting to make that recipe. I've loved my fans from the very first day, but they've said things and done things recently that make me feel like they're my friends -- more now than ever before. I'll never go a day without thinking about our memories together."
- Taylor Swift
Personal Growth
"But then you make eye contact with someone across the room and it clicks and you're right there in love again."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes."
- Taylor Swift
Courage
"People haven’t always been there for me but music always has."
- Taylor Swift
Connection to Earth
"I think most of us fear reaching the end of our life, and looking back, regretting the moments we didn’t speak up. When we didn’t say 'I love you.' When we should’ve said 'I’m sorry.' When we didn’t stand up for ourselves or someone who needed help."
- Taylor Swift
Awareness
"Never believe anyone who tells you that you don’t deserve what you want."
- Taylor Swift
Belief
"Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life, saying the right thing at the right moment is beyond crucial. So crucial, in fact, that most of us start to hesitate, for fear of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time."
- Taylor Swift
Inspiration
"I've learned that just because someone is cute and wants to date you, that's not a reason to sacrifice your independence and allow everyone to say whatever they want about you."
- Taylor Swift
Independence
"Unique and different is the new generation of beautiful."
- Taylor Swift
Self-esteem
"Be yourself, chase your dreams, and just never say never."
- Taylor Swift
Belief in Self
"In life you learn lessons. Sometimes you learn them the hard way and sometimes you learn them too late."
- Taylor Swift
Learning from Mistakes
"I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are."
- Taylor Swift
Growth
"In life and love, you learn that there comes a time to let go and move on."
- Taylor Swift
Change
"Life isn’t how to survive the storm, it’s about how to dance in the rain."
- Taylor Swift
Happiness
"The lesson I’ve learned the most often in life is that you’re always going to know more in the future than you know now."
- Taylor Swift
Insight
"I never want to change so much that people can’t recognize me."
- Taylor Swift
Inspiration
"Unique and different is the new generation of beautiful. You don’t have to be like everybody else."
- Taylor Swift
Inspiration
"If you’re lucky enough to be different, never change."
- Taylor Swift
Independence
"We’re just entertaining people, and it’s supposed to be fun."
- Taylor Swift
Joy
"Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more."
- Taylor Swift
Motivation
"You can be accidentally successful for three or four years. Accidents happen. But careers take hard work."
- Taylor Swift
Hard Work
"If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down."
- Taylor Swift
Inspiration
"FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again even though every time you’ve tried before you’ve lost."
- Taylor Swift
Perseverance
"When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them."
- Taylor Swift
Courage
"We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls, gets broken."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"The way you walk, way you talk, way you say my name; it’s beautiful, wonderful, don’t you ever change."
- Taylor Swift
Love
"It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair."
- Taylor Swift
Adversity
"Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together."
- Taylor Swift
Compassion
"You can walk away and say 'We don't need this,' but something in your eyes says 'We can beat this.'"
- Taylor Swift
Resilience