Taylor Swift's NYU Commencement Speech

It's totally up to you.

My experiences has been that my mistakes led to best things in my life, and being embarassed when you messed up it's part of the human experience. Getting back up, dusting yourself off and seeing who still wants to hang out with you afterward and laugh about it, that's a gift.

Losing things doesn't just mean losing. A lot of times when we lose things, we gain things too.

every choice you make leads to the next choice, wich leads to the next choice, which leads to the next and i know it's hard to know which path to take.

There will be time in life where you need to standup for yourself.

Sometimes the right thing to do is to throw out the old schools of thought in the name of progress and reform

sometimes the right thing to do is to sit and listen to the wisdom of those who have come before us.

how will you know what the right choice is in thse crucial moments? You won't

The scary news is you're on your own now, but the cool news is, you're on your own now.

We are led by our gut instincts, our intuition, our desires and fears, our scars, and our dreams, and you will screw it up sometimes, so will I. Anyway, hard things will happen to us. We will recover we will learn from it. We will grow more resilient because of it