Quotes About Connection

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission -- to make the world more open and connected. Simply put: we don't build services to make money; we make money to build better services.

I hope that Facebook and other Internet technologies were able to help people, just like we hope that we help them communicate and organize and do whatever they want to every single day, but I don't pretend that if Facebook didn't exist, that this wouldn't even be possible. Of course, it would have.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

I mean, we've built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it's really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that's what's so amazing about the scale that it's at today.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

Think about what people are doing on Facebook today. They're keeping up with their friends and family, but they're also building an image and identity for themselves, which in a sense is their brand. They're connecting with the audience that they want to connect to. It's almost a disadvantage if you're not on it now.

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

A.P., Sara, and Maybelle were at their best when they were plying the sharper edges of private and personal pain.

Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just to stay near it.

He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It's his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.

A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.

His soul sat up. It met me. Those kinds of souls always do - the best ones. The ones who rise up and say "I know who you are and I am ready. Not that I want to go, of course, but I will come." Those souls are always light because more of them have been put out. More of them have already found their way to other places.

Tiffany is very proud to have the last name and she's proud of her dad.

The barriers between animal and human come down very easily. We belong to a single great family, and if we are lonely and unhappy we gladly accept the friendship of our distant relations.

There is no impulse more rational than love. It makes life more bearable for the lover and the loved one

I barely gave my appearance a thought. My animals didn't care about my outer shell, they certainly didn't love me for my appearance. They probably had no sense of beauty whatsoever; I can't imagine that a human being would have seemed beautiful to them.

How I wish I could give away pieces of this day like loaves of warm bread. The

Those like Brasini and those who are not like Brasini. Those who would take your face in their hands and kiss you like in the films and those who would never in ten million years take your face in their hands and kiss you like in the films. ...You are definitely a Brasini, sir. ...the Brasini theory,....

The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs.

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.

The lover says How beautiful you are, now that you love me.

Until they come to see us from their planet, I wait patiently. I hear them saying: Don't call us, we'll call you.

Everything is important. To the smallest insect, even the mouldering tree, the deepest stone in the drift.