Embrace Your Inner Free Spirit with These 125 Inspirational Hippie Quotes

Looking for inspirational quotes to help you embrace your inner hippie?

The hippie quotes below dive into themes of happiness, love, and much more.

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What are the benefits of reading these hippie quotes?

The hippie culture is a youth movement stemming from the 1960s.

In the modern-day, hippies are still prevalent in American culture.

We often consider hippies the most recognizable pop culture figures of the 1960s.

We often bring them back to life in costumes that feature peace signs and tie-dye colors.

But there is so much more to hippie culture than a stereotypical costume.

The hippie ideology is an emphasis on love, happiness, and peace.

After reading these hippie quotes:

• you will have a better understanding of how they felt about love, happiness, and peace
• let your free spirit soar and be whoever you want to be
• you will have a better understanding of how the hippie views nature and the universe

Below is our collection of hippie quotes that will bring more positivity into your everyday life.

Hippie quotes about happiness

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

2. “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.” — Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

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

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

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

7. “With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?” – Oscar Wilde

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

9. “I don’t want to earn a living I want to live.” – Oscar Wilde

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

11. “If I’m free, it’s because I’m always running.” — Jimi Hendrix

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

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

14. “Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.” — Bob Marley

15. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn

Inspirational hippie quotes

16. “In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” — Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

19. “Those who wish to learn magic ought to begin by looking around them.” – Paulo Coelho

20. “All we are saying is give peace a chance.” – John Lennon

21. “We all sang the songs of peace.” – Melanie Safka

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

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

24. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, Live the life you’ve always imagined.” – Henry David Thoreau

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

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

27. “When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” – Jimi Hendrix

28. “Growing up, I was a little hippie kid.” — Summer Sanders

29. “Guess what, I might be the first hippie pinup girl.” —  Janis Joplin

30. “Basically, I was a hippie and still am a flower child.” — Donna Karan

Hippie quotes about freedom

31. “What if I fall? Oh, but my darling, what if you fly?” – E. H.

32. “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

33. “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

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

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

36. “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

37. “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

38. “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

39. “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

40. “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

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

42. “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

Hippie quotes about love

43. “Love is a friendship set to music.” — Joseph Campbell

44. “Love is all you need.” — The Beatles

45. “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

46. “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

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

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

49. “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

50. “Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.” – James Arthur Baldwin

More hippie quotes

51. “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

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

53. “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

54. “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

55. 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

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

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

58. “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

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

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

61. “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

62. “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

63. “Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.” –
Robert A. Heinlein

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

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

Hippie quotes that resonate with your inner flower child

66. “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

67. “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

68. “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

69. “Never trust a hippie. That’s definitely my motto.” — Sam Taylor-Johnson

70. “I’m just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.” — Sherman Hemsley

71. “I knew when I went to a very hippie high school that focused on music that I wanted to do something in the industry.” — Tove Lo

72. “I’m a hippie child of the ’60s. What drives me cra​​zy about mass media entertainment is that it’s so often devoid of any ideas.” — James Lapine

73. “I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.” — P. J. O’Rourke

74. “I was raised vegan. My mom would always make quinoa with squash and kale, hippie stuff like that. Now I eat meat, but I try to be conscious about where it’s coming from.” — Zoe Kravitz

75. “I grew up in a very urban, bohemian family where everyone was a hippie or a pacifist. It was artistically and intellectually stimulating, but they were definitely not into outdoor sports or activities.” — Alexander Skarsgard

Hippie quotes about the culture

76. “Just having the art-communal hippie experience as a child, there wasn’t a clear line that was drawn. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression.” – Jared Leto 

77. “My mother was extremely controlled, sort of flawless. And I always tend to be a bit more hippie.” – Vera Wang

78. “I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other.” – J.K. Simmons

79. “We came out in the midst of the hippie hangover. All this mellow music.” – Angus Young

80. “I was a hippie. I dropped in and out of everything. Then I found acting. It really grounded me.” – Conchata Ferrell

81. “When once I got to America I fell in love with hippie culture, and I’ve always wanted to live in the country and grow organic vegetables.” – Jamaica Kincaid

82. “1968 was the beginning of the hippie movement in fashion. That movement made fashion change completely. It was not necessary to be always dressed up. You could be dressed the way you wanted – it was absolute freedom.” – Sonia Rykiel

83. “I’m a former hippie, so clothes are important to me – your clothes defined you in that period. I guess clothes still defines people.” – John Hughes

84. “I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.” – Patricia Arquette

85. “I feel like a total hippie right now. I’m passionate about all sorts of things – a lot of boring, cuddly Hallmark things, to be honest.” – Dreama Walker

Hippie quotes for the young

86. “We all want to change the world.” – The Beatles

87. “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

88. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.” – Carl Jung

89. “You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.” – Robert A. Heinlein

90. “Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes.” – Jim Morrison

91. I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.” – Hermann Hesse

92. “I’d rather wear flowers in my hair than diamonds around my neck. I don’t want to earn a living I want to live.” – Oscar Wilde

93. .”Like a true Nature’s child, we were born, born to be wild.” – Steppenwolf

94. “The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes, and switchblades.” – Alice Cooper

95. “There is a secret hippie within me.” – Philip Lim

Hippie quotes for Instagram

96. “I made such a mess of my life that it turned into an art.” – Matt Baker

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

98. You belong among the wildflowers.” – Tom Petty

99. “You’re either on the bus or off the bus.” – Tom Wolfe

100. “We do not make friends; we recognize them.” – G. Henrichs

101. “Excuse me while I kiss the sky.” – Jimi Hendrix

102. “Be the moon and inspire people even if you are far from full.” – K. Tolnoe

103. “Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside.”
– Peter Deunov

104. “May the flowers remind us why the rain was necessary.” – Xan Oku

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

Hippie Quotes To Inspire Us To Live Simply, Lovingly, And Happy As We Can.

106.”In my youth, the athletes had crew cuts and the hippies had long hair. Now the athletes have long hair and the hippies are bald.” — Harley King.

107. “In reality punk people are usually the gentlest, kindest folks you’ll ever know. They’re like hippies, only they wear way more black.” —  Kate Rockland

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

109. “I love the title of ‘hippy’ because it means someone who is thinking cosmic and futuristic.” — Peter Max

110. “To get the hippie out of certain characters is probably the most difficult thing for me. I was not a hippie by choice but by birth.” — Melissa Leo

111. “I’ve been called a career hippie. I like that, I like that a lot.” — Tom Noddy

112. “We hippies talked of peace and love, and the good men we championed fell because of violence and hatred.” — Gerald Maclennon

113. “I was raised with hippie parents, so I get down with the positive. I don’t pay attention to the negative.” — Guy Fieri

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

115. “I’m a hippie at heart – I always want everyone to be happy.” — Sylvia Hoeks

Hippie Quotes To Make You Feel Energized

116. “All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.” ― Joe Strummer

117. “I grew up counterculture. I’m essentially a hippie, and I’m essentially a folkie.” ― Steve Earle

118. “It’s funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.” ― Bjork

119. “For many people the hippie movement is something to drop into and out of.” ― Northrop Frye

120. “What kind of hippie am I? Man, I’m a business hippie. I understand the concept of supply and demand.” ― Dov Tiefenbach

121. “She dances to the songs in her head, speaks with the rhythm of her heart, and loves from the depths of her soul.” ― Dean Jackson

122. “Her messy hair is a visible attribute of her stubborn spirit. As she shakes it free, she smiles knowing wild is her favorite color.” ― J. Iron Word

123. “Never go with a hippy to a second location.” ― Jack Donaghy

124. “Hippies, they’re all, like, peace and love, but underneath they’re Nazis. It’s the lack of meat.” ― Zeb

125. “I want to be a hippie and I want to get stoned. / I want to be a wonder way guy to leave home.” ― Clifford Goldsmith

Who’s your favorite hippie icon?

In hippie culture, positivity reigns supreme.

Consider keeping a gratitude journal to bring more happiness into your everyday life.

Each night, write things that happened throughout the day that made you thankful.

This could be anything from people (i.e. family, friends), places (i.e. your home), or just the little things that make you happy (i.e. the smell of your morning coffee).

Scientific studies have shown that keeping a gratitude journal has a multitude of positive effects, including better sleep and increased mental strength.

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