Taylor Swift Life Quotations

People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

If you cry over a guy, then your friends can't date him. It can't even be considered.

My experience with songwriting is usually so confessional, it's so drawn from my own life and my own stories.

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.

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.

I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you'd experience. You have rejection and you have learn how to deal with that and how to get up the next day and go on with it.

I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line drawn between their friends and their fans. The line's always been really blurred for me. I'll hang out with them after the show. I'll hang out with them before the show. If I see them in the mall, I'll stand there and talk to them for 10 minutes.

I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.

If you're yelling you're the one who's lost control of the conversation.

I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.

Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.

I wish all teenagers can filter through songs instead of turning to drugs and alcohol.

And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.

For me, 'risky' is revealing what really happened in my life through music. Risky is writing confessional songs and telling the true story about a person with enough details so everyone knows who that person is.

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.

Your lucky enough to be different, never change

No matter what happens in life, be good to people.

There's more to life than dating the boy on the football team.

I’m beginning to think that you don’t find happiness from living your life looking ahead or back… that you find it when you look around.

In life and love, you learn that there comes a time to let go and move on.

To me, Fearless is not the absense 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.

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.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.

I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.

giving up doesn't always mean your weak sometimes your just strong enough to let go

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.

I don't think it's the most important thing in life to fit it. I think it's the most important thing in life to dance to the beat of your own drum and to look like you're having more fun than the people who look cool like they fit in.

Seems like there's always someone who disapproves. They'll judge it like they know about me and you.

We don’t just live in a celebrity take-down culture; we live in a take-down culture. People will find anything about you and twist it to where it’s weird or wrong or annoying or strange or bad. You have to live your life not only in spite of people who don’t understand you - you have to have more fun than they do.

Just be yourself, there is no one better.

I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.

I'm intrigued and drawn to people who know exactly who they are, who know what they want, who live life on their own terms.

Life is a ruthless game unless you play it good and right.

It's been occurring to me I'd like to hang out with you, for my whole life.1

Fixing your heartbreak by getting into another relationship is not the way to live your life - you need to live it on your terms for a while.

You've got every right to a beautiful life

Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life saying the right thing at the right time is beyond crucial.

Sometimes in life you have to be your own best friend.

The thing about life is, every time you learn a lesson, another is waiting right at the corner. You never know everything.

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

The way you walk, way you talk, way you say my name; it's beautiful, wonderful, don't you ever change.

So don't you worry your pretty little mind because people throw rocks at things that shine. [Ours]

It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair.

You can walk away and say "We don't need this." but something in your eyes says "We can beat this.

Life is like walking you take one step at a time.

I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives.

Vanity can apply to both insecurity and egotism.

I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.

I believe when it comes to love, there's something intangible about who we are attracted to, and I don't think I have a pattern.

But when I hear a great song, I can't help but be inspired by it, regardless of whatever genre that song falls under.

You have to not only live your life in spite of people who don't understand you, you have to have more fun than they do.

I want a guy who takes charge, but lets me have my say once in a while. A good relationship is all about balance and chemistry.

Live your life like you are 80 years old looking back on your teenage years

I have an excellent father, his strength is making me stronger.

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.

It's never been about trying to look well-behaved. It's just how I am. I guess it's a weird thing to be 19 and not ever have been drunk, but for me, it just feels normal because I don't really know any other way. I don't know if I'd be comfortable getting wasted and not knowing what I've said. That doesn't mean when I'm older I won't have a glass of wine. I just don't think it's such a strange thing for me not to be wasted all the time.

The way I look at love is you have to follow it, and fall hard, if you fall hard. You have to forget about what everyone else thinks. It has to be an us-against-the-world mentality. You have to make it work by prioritizing it, and by falling in love really fast, without thinking too hard. If I think too hard about a relationship I'll talk myself out of it. I have rules for a lot of areas of my life. Love is not going to be one of them.