27 Of The Most Profound And Insightful Taylor Swift Quotes To Celebrate Her Birthday

“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 st…”

— Taylor Swift, taylorswift.com

“I've gotten into this nasty habit of running away from love, but maybe one day I can find the exception to that.”

— Taylor Swift, taylorswift.com

“So there's a time for silence, and there's a time for waiting your turn. But if you know how you feel and you so clearly know what you need to say, you'll know it. I don't think you should wait. I think you should Speak Now.”

— Taylor Swift, everythingaboutyou13.tumblr.com

“But I just thought, how can the devil be pulling you toward someone who looks so much like an angel when he smiles at you? I think that the worst part of it all wasn't losing him. It was losing me.”

— Taylor Swift, youtube.com

“I think unrequited love is just as valid as any other kind...It's just as crushing and just as thrilling. No matter what happens in this situation, I want you to remember that what you are doing is selfless and beautiful and kind. You are loving someone purely because you love them, not because you…”

— Taylor Swift, etonline.com

“You know it’s not about perfection. It’s about just getting on with things, sometimes. Sometimes, you just get credit for getting up and going on with things – you don’t have to do it perfectly.”

— Taylor Swift, amazon.com

“I wish no one would ever mess with your head or send you mixed singles. Like they were so into one day and then blew you off the next. I wish no one would wait two days to text you back, because you know they had their phone of them the entire time. Because I only want things to be simple for you. A…”

— Taylor Swift, amazon.com

“You have to be okay with it. Because if you are the girl that needs a boyfriend, then once she loses that boyfriend needs another boyfriend, it’s a constant stream of bfs all the time.. I don’t think I ever want to be that girl. I want to be the girl that when she falls in love it’s a big deal and i…”

— Taylor Swift, youtube.com

“There are going to be people along the way who try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishes or your fame. But if you just focus on the work and you don’t let those people sidetrack you some day when you get where you are going, you’ll look around and you’ll know it was you and t…”

— Taylor Swift, youtube.com

“And I'm not naive to think there is nothing wrong in your life. That there is nothing you are struggling with. There is nothing that is hurting you or haunting you. Because that would be unrealistic, the fact is everyone has scars and ghosts and regrets. Maybe you fell in love with a person or a hab…”

— Taylor Swift, amazon.com

“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, taylorswift.com

“You don't get to control someone's emotional response.”

— Taylor Swift, instagram.com

“Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration. All those emotion…”

— Taylor Swift, amazon.com

“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 hur…”

— Taylor Swift, youtube.com

“When you start to compare yourself to other people, please change the channel in your mind to something else, because I think that when it comes to how we see ourselves, other people are really mean, but we’re really mean to ourselves. And so it’s easy to get confused. And when you do get confused,…”

— Taylor Swift, amazon.com

“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 r…”

— Taylor Swift, eonline.com

“All you can do is be honest and real with him as you get to know each other. Deciding not to play games is the best way to go because it keeps things simple: If he messes it up by playing around with your heart, you'll know he doesn't deserve you. You were real with him, and he didn't return the cou…”

— Taylor Swift, eonline.com

“I think that you can love people without it being the great love.”

— Taylor Swift, eonline.com

“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…”

— Taylor Swift, eonline.com

“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, seventeen.com

“You are not damaged goods just because you’ve made mistakes in your life. You are not going nowhere just because you haven’t got where you want to go yet. Those are the things you actually are not. Now I want to tell you what you are. You are your own definition of beautiful and worthwhile; that’s w…”

— Taylor Swift, youtube.com

“I think--I think when it's all over, It just comes back in flashes, you know? It's like a kaleidoscope of memories. It just all comes back. But he never does...”

— Taylor Swift, youtube.com

“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…”

— Taylor Swift, everythingaboutyou13.tumblr.com

“I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.”

— Taylor Swift, amazon.com

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

— Taylor Swift, amazon.com

“I don’t think anyone gets to a point where they don’t care what anyone thinks….I’ve just learned how to write off the opinions of people who don’t matter to me.”

— Taylor Swift, taylorswift.com

“When I was in high school, I remember seeing girls crying in the bathroom every Monday about what they did that weekend. I never wanted to be that girl crying in the bathroom.”

— Taylor Swift, taylorswift.com