140+ Astonishing Hippie Quotes About Life

A hippie, also spelled hippy, especially in UK English, was a member of the counterculture of the 1960s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to other countries around the world. The word hippie came from hipster and was used to describe beatniks

Hippie fashion and values had a major effect on culture, influencing popular music, television, film, literature, and the arts. Since the 1960s, mainstream society has assimilated many aspects of hippie culture.

The vast majority of people who had participated in the golden age of the hippie movement were those born during the 1940s as well as the early 1950s.

Let’s read some inspirational hippie quotes.


Trippy Hippie Quotes


“When you find peace within yourself you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.”

Anne Frank


“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed individuals can change the world, indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.”

– Margaret Meade


“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.”

– Joseph Campbell


“Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air.”

– Emerson


“Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.”

– Satchel Paige


“Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can. No need for greed or hunger. A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people sharing all the world.”

– John Lennon


“Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.”

– Abbie Hoffman


“You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should…”

– Max Ehrmann


“Love is a friendship set to music.”

– Joseph Campbell


“And those who were seen dancing were through to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche


“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”

– Joseph Chilton Pearce


“There is a secret hippie within me.”

– Phillip Lim


“Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.”

– Alan Watts


“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”

– Mahatma Gandhi


“We all got up to dance. Oh, but we never got the chance!”

– Don McLean


Hippie Quotes About Life Image
Hippie Quotes About Life Image

Hippie Quotes About Life


“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”

– Oscar Wilde


“When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.”

– George Harrison


“Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, don’t give up the fight.”

– Bob Marley


“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”

– Audrey Hepburn


“I don’t want to earn a living I want to live.”

– Oscar Wilde


“I have found that if you love, life will love you back.”

– Unknown


“Peace is not the destination. Peace is the way.”

– Unknown


“Life is for deep kisses strange adventures midnight swims and rambling conversations.”

– Unknown


“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

– Thich Nhat Hanh


“Maybe one day we will find the place where dreams and reality collide.”

– Unknown


“Life is short. Don’t waste it being sad. Be who you are, be happy, be free, be whatever you want to be.”

– Unknown


“My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end, everything will end, right?”

– Janis Joplin


“Let me tell you about the birds and the bees, and the flowers and the trees, the moon and the stars. And a thing called love.”

– Unknown


“The only person you should try to be better than, is the person you were yesterday.”

– Unknown


“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix


Hippie Quotes About Life Image
Hippie Quotes About Life Image

“War is not healthy for children and other living things.”

– Unknown


“Love is all you need.”

– The Beatles


“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”

– Alan Watts


Hippie Quotes About Life


“Time you enjoy wasting, was is wasted time.”

– Bertrand Russell


“Sometimes all you can do is not think, not wonder, not imagine, not obsess. Just breathe and have faith that everything will work out for the best.”

– Unknown


“You can’t fix yourself by breaking someone else.”

– Unknown


“You create your own reality.”

– Seth


“War is over if you want it.”

– John Lennon


If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there would be peace.”

– John Lennon


“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.”

– Joseph Campbell


“We all want to change the world.”

– The Beatles


“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”

– Jim Morrison


“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, Live the life you’ve always imagined.”

– Henry David Thoreau


“If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.”

– Timothy Leary


“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”

– Mahatma Gandhi


Hippie Quotes About Life Image
Hippie Quotes About Life Image

“It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.”

– Carl Jung


“You have to forget about what other people say when you’re supposed to die, or when you’re supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things.”

– Jimi Hendrix


“You have to go on & be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.”

– Jimi Hendrix


“Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.”

– Satchel Paige


“Nobody has ever told you that you are good as you are.”

– Osho


Hippie Quotes For Instagram


“A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take away from you.”

– Ramsey Clark


“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”

– Alan Watts


“If the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.”

– Terence McKenna


“If you don’t like what you’re doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.”

– Timothy Leary


“To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.”

– Bernadette Devlin


“What if I fall? Oh, but my darling, what if you fly?”

– Erin Hanson


“The ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles.”

– Jack Kerouac


“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

– Thich Nhat Hanh


“When you ain’t got nothing, you got nothing to lose.”

– Bob Dylan


“If you’re not part of the solution, you’re part of the problem.”

– Eldridge Cleaver


“Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.”

– Bob Marley


“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”

– Joseph Chilton Pearce


Hippie Quotes About Life Image
Hippie Quotes About Life Image

“All I’m gonna do is just go on and do what I feel.”

– Jimi Hendrix


“Your mind is like a parachute, it doesn’t work unless it’s open.”

– Jordan Maxwell


“None but ourselves can free our minds.”

– Bob Marley


“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”

– Mahatma Gandhi


“Time you enjoy wasting was is wasted time.”

– Bertrand Russell


Trippy Hippie Quotes


“Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics.”

– Carl Jung


“There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.”

– Buckminster Fuller


“When you find peace within yourself you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.”

– Anne Frank


“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.”

– Bertrand Russell


“How does it feel to be on your own, with no direction home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone?”

– Bob Dylan


“I’ve been smiling lately, dreaming about the world as one. And I believe it could be someday it’s going to come.”

– Cat Stevens


“If I’m free, it’s because I’m always running.”

– Jimi Hendrix


“You’re either on the bus or off the bus.”

– Ken Kesey


“If you smile at me I will understand because that is something everyone, everywhere does in the same language.”

– Jefferson Airplane


“When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.”

– George Harrison


“All we are saying is give peace a chance.”

– John Lennon


Hippie Quotes About Life Image
Hippie Quotes About Life Image

“I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”

— Robert Frost


“My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end, everything will end, right?”

— Janis Joplin


“Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.”

– Joseph Campbell


“When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.”

– George Harrison


Short Hippie Quotes


“My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.”

— Timothy Leary


“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh


“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there would be peace.”

– John Lennon


“If you smile at me I will understand because that is something everyone, everywhere does in the same language.”

— Jefferson Airplane


“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.”

– Bertrand Russell


“If you don’t like what you’re doing, you can always pick up your needle and move to another groove.”

— Timothy Leary


“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.”

— Jack Kerouac


“Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.”

— Bob Marley


“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”

– Audrey Hepburn


“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed individuals can change the world, indeed it’s the only thing that ever has.”

— Margaret Meade


“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”

— Mahatma Gandhi


Hippie Quotes About Life Image
Hippie Quotes About Life Image

Don’t Miss Positivity Hippie Quotes


“Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.”

– Satchel Paige


“You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.”

– Max Ehrmann


“A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take away from you.”

— Ramsey Clark


“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”

– Alan Watts


“If the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.”

– Terence McKenna


“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, Live the life you’ve always imagined.”

– Henry David Thoreau


“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Campbell


“You have to forget about what other people say, when you’re supposed to die, or when you’re supposed to be loving. You have to forget about all these things. You have to go on & be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.”

— Jimi Hendrix


“Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture. From the very beginning, you have been told how you should be; Nobody has ever told you that you are good as you are.”

– Osho


“To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else.”

– Bernadette Devlin


“Always trust those searching for The Truth, never those who have found it.”

— Jordan Maxwell


Some More Hippie Quotes About Life


“Your mind is like a parachute, it doesn’t work unless it’s open.”

— Jordan Maxwell


“There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn’t enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don’t have enough.”

– Buckminster Fuller


“What if I fall? Oh, but my darling, what if you fly?”

– E. H.


“Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned to a particular decade. It is a perpetual process embedded in the human spirit.”

– Abbie Hoffman


“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good when you are near or with them.”

— Charles Bukowski


Hippie Quotes About Life Image
Hippie Quotes About Life Image

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche


“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”

– Oscar Wilde


“If you want to be free, be free. Cause there are a million things to be.”

— Cat Stevens


“I don’t want to earn a living I want to live.”

– Oscar Wilde


“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.”

— Mark Twain


“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role… you give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.”

— Jim Morrison


“If I’m free, it’s because I’m always running.”

— Jimi Hendrix


“You don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”

— Bob Dylan


“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears the beat of a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.”

— Henry David Thoreau


Positivity Hippie Quotes


“Love is a friendship set to music.”

— Joseph Campbell


“Love is all you need.”

— The Beatles


“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. That’s why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.”

— Erica Jong


“I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it’s beautiful.”

— Frederick E. Perl


“Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.”

– Alan Watts


“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

– Jimi Hendrix


Hippie Quotes About Life Image
Hippie Quotes About Life Image

“If someone thinks love and peace is a cliché that must have been left behind in the ‘60s, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal.”

— John Lennon


“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”

– James Arthur Baldwin


“There’s a limit to my patience with anything that smacks of metaphysics. I squirm at the mention of mind expansion or warm healing energy. I don’t like drum circles, public nudity or strangers touching my feet.”

– Koren Zailckas


“He lost himself somewhere on the harmless side of lunacy, slightly south of innocuous but definitely north of demented.”

– Tony Vigorito


Random Hippie Quotes


“As though everything truly had to be faced without fear, as a mere fact of life – we don’t choose the things that happen to us, but we can choose how we react to them.”

– Paulo Coelho


“Those who wish to learn magic ought to begin by looking around them.”

– Paulo Coelho


“The hippie movement politicized my generation. When it ended, we all started looking back at our own history, looking, in my case, for motives of rebellion.”

– Vivienne Westwood


“The Rolling Stones are much more accomplished than Jefferson Airplane, who are more like tribal people. That is, they present something which exists: The music and the hippie.”

– Jean-Luc Godard


“The people who really know me understand that I have a tough exterior, but I’m actually just a hippie at heart.”

– Erin Wasson


“In private, I’m a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.”

– Laura Harring


“The real hippie is trying to create something inclusive, something holistic, something loving and healthy which isn’t in perpetual conflict with authority and actually knows that the only way to disarm the entire game is to step aside and not take any sides.”

– Devendra Banhart


“The hippie era was a wonderful time because we still believed we could make the world a better place.”

– Lemmy


“All we are saying is give peace a chance.”

– John Lennon


“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”

– Robert A. Heinlein


“When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find peace of mind is waiting there.”

– Geroge Harrison


Hippie Quotes About Life Image
Hippie Quotes About Life Image

“I’m a little bit of a hippie at heart, so I always wear things that are comfortable and flowing.”

– Carly Rae Jepsen


“We all sang the songs of peace.”

– Melanie Safka


Short Hippie Quotes


“Old hippies don’t die, they just lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes round again.”

– Joseph Gallivan


“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

– Joseph Campbell


“The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us.”

– George Harrison


“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there would be peace.”

– John Lennon


“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”

– Charles Bukowski


“I’m a little bit of a hippie at heart, so I always wear things that are comfortable and flowing.”

– Carly Rae Jepsen


“Too many people buy things they don’t need with money they don’t have trying to impress people they don’t even like.”

– Unknown


“If the truth can be told so as to be understood, it will be believed.”

– Terence McKenna


“Nobody living can ever stop me. As I go walking my freedom highway. Nobody living can make me turn back. This land was made for you and me.”

– Woody Guthrie


“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, Live the life you’ve always imagined.”

– Henry David Thoreau


“I took the road less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”

– Robert Frost


One Liner Hippie Quotes


“Live by the sun, love by the moon.”

– Unknown


“If you want to be free, be free. Cause there are a million things to be.”

– Cat Stevens


“We all sang the songs of peace.”

– Melanie Safka


Hippie Quotes About Life Image
Hippie Quotes About Life Image

“And then my soul saw you, and it’s kind of went: Oh, there you are, I’ve been looking for you.”

– Unknown


“A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take away from you.”

– Ramsey Clark


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