Hippie Quotes

“When first I arrived in the woods, I became aware of how unprepared I was for what I was about to experience."”
― John-Paul Cernak, The Odyssey of a Hippie Marijuana Grower

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

“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, Fury: A Memoir

“Here we are sitting at the Waldorf in a conference room... and in comes someone with long hair and wearing an outfit dripping leather. I remember whispering to Dave Connell," How do we know that man back there isn't going to throw a bomb up here or toss a hand grenade? "
Connell, always one to keep a cool head, assessed the situation with care. He discreetly turned his head toward the back and realized he recognized the tall, angular man carrying a small purse under his arm. A slight smile curled as he assured Cooney the hippie back there posed no threat.
"Not likely, that's Jim Henson," he said.”
― Michael Davis, Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street

“My point is this — you don't know. When I was first here, people looked at my hair, noticed apples on my tray, and thought 'hippie.' Then, from 'hippie' they thought 'druggie.' From there it went to 'will get me in trouble' and 'not worth my time,' and then they stopped thinking at all. No one bothered to find out if what they thought about me was true. No one wanted to hear what I thought. No one cared what I believed in. No one cared about talking to me or asking what my plans were for the day or night. And then came you. Don't let what you think you know make him into what I could have been. Don't become someone who doesn't think, just because you don't like him for some reason. Because, quite frankly, I like how you think. Except for now, of course.”
― Rebecca McKinsey, Sydney West

“The caterpillar turns to liquid before turning into a butterfly. Liquid. Thus washing away any speck of his caterpillar self as he lies completely vulnerable to his environment in his chrysalis shell. One good solid gust of wind and the caterpillars boned.”
― Hippie, Snowflake Obsidian: Memoir of a Cutter

“The worst killing is that which kills the joy we get from life.”
― Paulo Coelho, Hippie

“I embrace the rain like no one else and I call for storms because I live for the moments when I get through to the other side with all my organs intact.
I change with the seasons and the seasons live in me, depending on the weather as if it's something to be trusted. I don't feel safe unless I'm far below or high above, near the ocean, or climbing the mountain. Where I can't be reached or seen by anyone or anything and not even myself, because it seems to me that these voices in my head get louder just to kill the noise from the outside,
and so I need to go away from time to time.
You will never see me surrender, never see me cry, but you will often see me walk away. Turn around and just leave, without looking back.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps

“He was unmistakably sipping iced tea with the hatters and the hares.”
― Tony Vigorito, Just A Couple Of Days

“I wanna say hello to all the ex-hippies tonight. I've never been a hippie myself but I'm an honorary hippie.”
― Bob Dylan

“Where will my heart lead if I've yet to wander so many unknown paths?”
― Paulo Coelho, Hippie

“Everything and everybody is the same; this is the mystery and the end.”
― Paulo Coelho, Hippie

“Just one day was worth more than all the kingdoms in the world.”
― Paulo Coelho, Hippie

“True love, a question for which there is no answer.”
― Paulo Coelho, Hippie

“If there was no change, there would be no universe.”
― Paulo Coelho, Hippie

“Part of the fun in life is exactly this: running risks.”
― Paulo Coelho, Hippie

“He closed the door but he knew that, for those who seek to step beyond the threshold, the door is always open. You need only turn the knob.”
― Paulo Coelho, Hippie

“The true spiritual journey is stronger than the reasons that lead us to it.”
― Paulo Coelho, Hippie

“Dancing transforms everything, demands everything, and judges no one.”
― Paulo Coelho, Hippie

“Dad, I know you want me to earn a diploma, but I can do that at any point in my life, what I need now are experiences.”
― Paulo Coelho, Hippie

“There is no difference between the sea and the waves
When a wave swells, it is made of water
When it breaks against the sand, it is also made of the same water.
Tell me, Lord: Why are the two things the same? Where do the mystery and the end lie?
The Lord responds: Everything and everybody is the same; this is the mystery and the end.”
― Paulo Coelho, Hippie

“Nature is an old school, frequented by hippies on weekends.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“Good god, how didn't I notice that before the earth breathes and its colors are constantly changing? Is that what you want to know?”
― Paulo Coelho, Hippie

“...paradise is expensive, the gate is narrow. Whoever visits discovers that life is beautiful, that the sun can in fact be divided into individual rays, it's no longer that boring, round ball you can't even look at. The next day, you go back to work on a train full of people with empty looks, emptier than the looks of the people here. Everybody thinking about getting home, making dinner, turning on the television, escaping reality- man, reality is this white powder, not the television!”
― Paulo Coelho, Hippie

“She said “I want to love like a hippie, live my life like a hallmark movie and give back Mother Teresa”
― Positively Sherry

“Humanity has committed its greatest crimes in the name of the Truth. Men and women were burned alive, entire civilisations were destroyed, those who committed sins of the flesh were sent away, those who pursued a different path were cast out. One of them, in the name of ‘truth,’ was crucified. But before dying, he clarified Truth’s ultimate definition. It is not that which gives us certainty. It is not that which gives us profound thoughts. It is not that which makes us better than others. It is not that which makes us prisoners to our own prejudices. ‘The Truth is what makes us free. You will know the Truth and the Truth shall set you free,’ Jesus said.”
― Paulo Coelho

“Not quite like my mother’s, but still a real ‘trip,’” Bigfoot confided, “though what I really go for here is the respect.”
“Didn’t get much of that from your mom, huh?”
Had Doc really said that or only thought it? He waited for Bigfoot to take offense, but the detective only went on...”
― Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice

“I will be doing two things tonight well... 1, Drinking in your establishment and 2, Growing my Hair Long”
― Kevin Kolenda

“If modern dervishes are no more than
"traditional hippies," still I feel that the world has a secret but absolute need for the presence of such wild free spirits, just as it needs the presence of some wilderness, unplanned, unmanaged, apparently profitless, chaotic as God first made it. (And both of these needs seem to fall under the patronage of the master traveler, Khezr himself).”
― Peter Lamborn Wilson, Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam

“We are firmly convinced that if Jesus Christ were here today he would be in the National Theater approving and applauding and very probably participating as a cast member of Hair, knowing that Hair is a truer representation of Christianity than the dour, joyless pickets out here.”
― Franklin E. Kameny