50 Inspiring Hippie Quotes to Ignite Your Soul

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

- John Lennon

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams, live the life you've always imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Life is a journey, not a destination."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other."

- Elie Wiesel

"It is my conviction that there is no way to peace – peace is the way."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

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

- Jimi Hendrix

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

- Satchel Paige

"Follow your bliss, and the universe will open doors where there were only walls."

- Joseph Campbell

"Peace is always beautiful."

- Walt Whitman

"You belong somewhere you feel free, you belong among all the wildflowers."

- Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

"When you do things from your soul, You feel a river of joy within you."

- Rumi

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

- Robert A. Heinlein

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

- Anne Frank

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

- James Baldwin

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous 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 starts and in the middle you see the blue centre light pop and everybody goes “Awww!”."

- Jack Kerouac

"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, and risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more."

- Erica Jong

"There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first."

- Jim Morrison

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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

- Bob Marley

"Dancing transforms everything, demands everything, and judges no one. Those who are fit, dance, even if they find themselves in a cell, or in a wheelchair, because dancing is not the mere repetition of certain movements, it’s a conversation with a being greater and more powerful than everyone and everything. To dance is to use a language beyond selfishness and fear."

- Paulo Coelho

"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

"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

"If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that’s his problem. Love and peace are eternal."

- John Lennon

"All we are saying is to give peace a chance."

- John Lennon

"Let’s dance in the sun, wearing wildflowers in our hair and let us huddle together as darkness takes over. We are at home amidst the birds and the trees, for we are children of nature."

- Susan Polis Schutz

"All good things are wild and free."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Don’t compare your life to others. There is no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it’s their time. Be crazy, be weird, don’t be afraid of what anybody thinks. Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect."

- Mark Twain

"Peace, it does not mean to be in a place where there is no noise, trouble or hard work. It means to be in the midst of those things and still be calm in your heart."

- Lady Gaga

"Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That’s how the light gets in."

- Leonard Cohen

"Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard."

- Anne Sexton

"I’d rather wear flowers in my hair, than diamonds around my neck. Doing what you like is freedom. Liking what you do is happiness."

- Sudha Murty

"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

"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

"Love is all you need."

- The Beatles

"Gently, you can shake the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Ramsey Clark

"Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest—thick canopies of maple trees and sweet-scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated."

- Beau Taplin

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

- Joseph Chilton Pearce

"You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once."

- Robert A. Heinlein

"Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"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."

- Erica Jong

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Jimi Hendrix

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."

- Mark Twain

"To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow."

- Audrey Hepburn

"You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be."

- Marianne Williamson

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

- Cat Stevens

"You are a child of the universe. No less than the trees and the stars."

- Max Ehrmann

"Blessed are the weird people: poets, misfits, writers, mystics, painters, troubadours for they teach us to see the world through different eyes."

- Jacob Nordby

"Always show more kindness than seems necessary, because the person receiving it needs it more than you will ever know."

- Colin Powell

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

- Alan Watts

"Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things."

- Robert Bault

"When it hurts – observe. Life is trying to teach you something."

- Anita Krizzan

"Like a true Nature’s child, we were born, born to be wild."

- Steppenwolf

"Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt."

- John Muir

"Let your smile change the world, but don’t let the world change your smile."

- Connor Franta

"Like wildflowers; You must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would."

- E.V

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

- Jordan Maxwell

"May every sunrise hold more promise, and every sunset hold more peace."

- Umair Siddiqui

"Make a wish, take a chance, make a change."

- Kelly Clarkson

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

- Jefferson Airplane

"Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"I believe everyone is on a spiritual path—some people know it, some don’t. The ones that know it call themselves religious, spiritual, or Soul Searchers."

- Emma Mildon

"Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring."

- Lilly Pulitzer

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

- Alan Watts

"I made such a mess of my life that it turned into an art."

- Matt Baker

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

- Arthur Rubinstein

"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

"I've been called a career hippie. I like that, I like that a lot."

- Tom Noddy

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

- Joseph Gallivan

"You call it God, We call it the universe."

- Sharmila Karthikeyan

"You are either on the bus or off the bus."

- Ken Kesey

"I made such a mess of my life that it turned into art."

- Matt Baker

"Time to live, time to lie, time to laugh, and time to die. Take it easy baby. Take it as it comes."

- Jim Morrison

"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries."

- Aldous Huxley

"I need someone who sees the fire in my eyes and wants to play with it."

- T.L. Martin

"She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world."

- Joanne Harris

"Be groovy or leave."

- Bob Dylan

"I’m one of those regular weird people."

- Janis Joplin

"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

"Let us dance in the sun, wearing wildflowers in our hair."

- Susan Polis Schutz

"We all sang the songs of peace."

- Melanie

"Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning to dance in the rain."

- Unknown

"There is freedom waiting for you in the breezes of the sky and you ask - What if I fall? Oh but my darling What if you fly?"

- 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

"Life’s short, spend it happily."

- Unknown

"Don’t change to make someone love you, be yourself and let the right one fall for you."

- Unknown

"When she finally learned how to let go of the things that didn't matter, she discovered all the things that really did."

- Unknown

"Do everything with so much love in your heart that you should never want to do it any other way."

- Unknown

"Expect nothing, appreciate everything."

- Unknown

"Radiate positive vibes."

- Unknown

"Whatever makes your soul happy, do that."

- Unknown

"In a field of roses, she is a wildflower."

- Unknown

"We are not given a good life or a bad life. We are given a life. It’s up to us to make it good or bad."

- Unknown

"Kindness matters."

- Unknown

"She had the soul of a gypsy, the heart of a hippie, the spirit of a fairy."

- Unknown

"Peace isn’t the destination, peace is the way."

- Unknown

"Flower child, you are about to bloom."

- Unknown

"Live in the moment."

- Unknown

"Do all things with kindness."

- Unknown

"Feel your soul."

- Unknown

"If you have to choose between being kind and being right, choose being kind and you will always be right."

- Unknown

"Dance until the flowers fall out of your hair."

- Unknown

"Today I will not stress over things I can’t control."

- Unknown

"Take a bath, you dirty hippie."

- Unknown

"Why be rude when you can be nude."

- Unknown

"Leave nothing but footprints, Kill nothing but time."

- Unknown

"Make your weird light shine bright, so other weirdos know where to find you."

- Unknown

"Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air."

- Unknown

"If you’re not barefoot you’re overdressed."

- Unknown

"Moondust in your lungs stars in your eyes, you are a child of the cosmos, a ruler of the skies."

- Unknown

"The deepest peace we will ever know is when we tenderly touch the heart and soul of another."

"May I live like the lotus? At ease in muddy water."

- Unknown

"I want to be wild, beautiful, and free just like the sea."

- Unknown

"The deepest Peace we will ever know is when we tenderly touch the heart and soul of another."

- Unknown

"War is not healthy for children and other living things."

- Unknown

"Knock on the door to my soul and you will find an ageless hippie with a rock and roll heart and a never-ending hope for peace."

- Unknown

"I believe true happiness is derived from helping others and spreading love."

- Unknown

"You are free as the wind, and you don’t like following rules. You’re open-minded and non-judgemental, You’re neither a leader nor a follower, You’re on your own blissful path. You believe that people should love more and hate less. It’s really that simple."

- Unknown

"Do what makes your soul shine."

- Unknown

"Old hippies don’t die, they lie low until the laughter stops and their time comes around again."

"The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man."