Somaly Mam Quotes

#1. I work with a cause called the Somaly Mam Foundation, and that is my purpose in life, above anything else. Everything that I do, I'm thinking about girls. As strong as we are, we're also sensitive, and I feel like men take advantage of that.

Shay Mitchell

#2. I travel to Cambodia, Thailand, Bali, and Nairobi for my charities: Somaly Mam and Friends to Mankind.

Serinda Swan

#3. Did you really have to put ideas in Izzy's head? she now has some ... What did she call it? Oh yeah "Trifecta of Vaginal Bliss". What the hell does that shit mean?

Harper Sloan

#4. What you have learned from experience is worth much more than gold. If you have a house it may burn down. Any kind of possession can be lost, but your experience is yours forever. Keep it and find a way to use it.

Somaly Mam

#5. The witches are firm believers in reincarnation, and they say that 'once a witch always a witch.'

Gerald Gardner

#6. Sometimes you can learn, even from a bad experience. By coping you become stronger. The pain does not go away, but it becomes manageable.

Somaly Mam

#7. I strongly believe that love is the answer and that it can mend even the deepest unseen wounds. Love can heal, love can console, love can strengthen, and yes, love can make change.

Somaly Mam

#8. Everyone can help, everyone can do one thing. Start by your heart: what you want.

Somaly Mam

#9. I don't feel like I can change the world. I don't even try. I only want to change this small life that I see standing in front of me, which is suffering.

Somaly Mam

#10. Sleep? What's that? A new type of casserole?

Maria V. Snyder

#11. Get friends involved. Get the community to take action. Everyone cannot do everything but each of you can do one thing.

Somaly Mam

#12. She was eight years old, with the body of a child, but her spirit was weighed down by an adult suffering.

Somaly Mam

#13. In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.

Robert South

#14. We were gunpowder and one hell of a spark, and I wasn't about to test our combustibility. ~ Junk Miles

Liz Reinhardt

#15. By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#16. O, that he were here to write me down an ass! But, masters, remember, that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.

William Shakespeare

#17. Put anger aside. It is not a solution. Patience and love is a solution. With compassion and action, together we can end slavery.

Somaly Mam

#18. I don't want to go without leaving a trace.

Somaly Mam

#19. Haydn muttered a rough oath, sending the echoes of the past shivering in all directions.

Hope Ann

#20. I was nothing more than a thug with Tolstoy in my pocket.

David Adams Richards

#21. I opened up Shutterstock to the whole world. I created a contributor community that anyone could give stock photography a shot.

Jon Oringer

#22. A seed is like a little girl: it can look small and worthless, but if you treat it well then it will grow beautiful.

Somaly Mam

#23. Love them. Save them. Give them opportunity.

Somaly Mam

#24. Ah, the young! Always so convinced their problems are unique in nature and unique to themselves.

Den Patrick