#raison

TV's "real" agenda is to be "liked," because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#agenda #because #completely #like #liked

Education in my family was not merely emphasized, it was our raison d'etre. ↗

— Steven Chu

#emphasized #family #merely #our #raison

Judge no one until you know their circumstances. No matter how awful they seemed, sometimes there was a valid reason for their behaviour. Granted, some people were just mean and corrupt, but not always. Many people were just in pain, and by acting out, they were only trying to protect themselves from being hurt more. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#pain #raison-d-être #dreams

Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone's task is unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#raison-d-être #life

Because it is my desire. Is that not enough?" [Sherlock Holmes on his raison d'être.] ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#motivation #raison-d-être #sherlock-holmes #motivational

Everything is a subject. Every subject has a rhythm. To feel it is the raison detre. The photograph is a fixed moment of such a raison detre, which lives on in itself. ↗

— Andre Kertesz

#everything #feel #fixed #itself #lives