"We read to know we are not alone." 

C. S. Lewis

"When we quit thinking primarily about our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness."

Joseph Campbell

"The road goes ever on and on...

Until it joins some larger way

Where many paths and errands meet.

And whither then?  I cannot say."

J.R.R. Tolkien

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

Henry David Thoreau