Let’s face it. You either love Taylor Swift or are wasting your time pretending to not love her. Even if you’re pretending to hate her, you know deep down that she has some incredible lyrics and eloquently speaks her mind. Her lyrics and words have helped me through thousands of emotional rainstorms and have helped make me clean. While there are countless words of wisdom, here are my top 13 favorite:

1. It’s perfectly fine to only think about your pets.

"All I think about are cats and metaphors."

2. It’s really okay to be obsessed with things.

Also, I personally talked to her about this at her house for 1989 Secret Sessions Nashville.

3. Happiness can always be found, so long as you look for it.

“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.”

4. It’s really okay to stand up for yourself and be a sassmaster.

Also see this: “Media, when you say ‘Lorde & Taylor are fighting'- by fighting do you mean 'FaceTiming constantly from US to NZ and LOLing at you?’ Thnx bye”

5. Feel something. Don’t be just connected virtually.

6. Life is a lesson.

7. Words can hurt, but they can also make it better.

“Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together.”

8. It’s okay to not accept an apology when you know someone doesn’t mean it.

9. You’re going to go further than you thought you would, especially when you’re young.

“In your life you’ll do things greater than dating the boy on the football team.”

10. You’re going to find someone; sometimes it just takes a little bit of time.

11. Accept yourself, no matter how hard that is.

“When you come to the realization that everyone has body issues – even the people you consider flawless – you can start to live with the way you are.”

12. Take it one day at a time...

“I can’t promise you that you’ll ever live in a world where people don’t hurt your feelings. But I can promise you that if you keep on moving and taking one day at a time, the opinions and words of people who hurt you will matter less and less to you.”

13. Because it gets easier.

“You are loved, even when you feel alone. Hang on. It gets easier, then it gets okay, and then it feels like freedom.”