I feel like my music has become a lot of things. It's hard to label the evolution, but I like there to be an evolution. I just like to paint with all different kinds of colors.
Taylor SwiftRead
I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12 year old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've kept that mentality. Just because there's a hurricane going on around you doesn't mean you have to open the window and look at it.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Don't let negativity or external chaos affect your inner peace and reality.
Taylor Swift's quote emphasizes the importance of maintaining a positive mindset and not letting external negativity or chaos dictate your life. By recognizing that criticism, especially from trivial sources, does not determine one's worth, individuals can focus on living authentically and manage their emotional environment without getting distracted by storms outside of their control.
Themes
NegativityMindsetPeaceEmotional HealthExternal Chaos
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about self-worth and resilience.
More from Taylor Swift
All quotes →Be yourself, chase your dreams, and just never say never. That's the best advice I could ever give someone.
Taylor SwiftRead
I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.
Taylor SwiftRead
One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.
Taylor SwiftRead
You can be obsessed with the bad things people say and the good things; either way, you're obsessed with yourself, and I'm not - you can become unhinged so easily.
Taylor SwiftRead
and you come away with a great little story of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you
Taylor SwiftRead
Similar quotes
When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow.
William FaulknerRead
God rarely allows a person to see how great a blessing he is to others.
Oswald ChambersRead
Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.
Og MandinoRead
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Elvis PresleyRead
To err is to wander, and wandering is the way we discover the world; and, lost in thought, it is also the way we discover ourselves. Being right might be gratifying, but in the end it is static, a mere statement. Being wrong is hard and humbling, and sometimes even dangerous, but in the end it is a journey, and a story.
Kathryn SchulzRead
He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.
Orison Swett MardenRead