“Inside you there are universes. You contain multitudes.”

“In a city, you can be alone in a crowd, and in fact what makes the city a city is that it lets you hide the strangeness in your mind inside its teeming multitudes.”

Orhan Pamuk book A Strangeness in My Mind

“When you bow deeply to the universe, it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you.”

Morihei Ueshiba (1883–1969) founder of aikido

“You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.”

Yoko Ono (1933) Japanese artist, author, and peace activist

“When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

“In the particular is contained the universal.”

James Joyce (1882–1941) Irish novelist and poet

“When the physicist speaks of the expanding universe with atheistic wonder, he is feeling the same transcendent pull that Rumi describes: Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript of a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that.”

Russell Brand book Revolution

“We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside.”

David Levithan book Every Day

“Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. It’s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained.”

Terry Pratchett book A Hat Full of Sky

“A book is simply the container of an idea—like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.”

Angela Carter (1940–1992) English novelist