Somaly 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. 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

#4. What if your only memory is of who you aren't, not who you are?

Roni O'Connell

#5. 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

#6. 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

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

Somaly Mam

#8. 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

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

Somaly Mam

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

Somaly Mam

#11. One of the things I always try to remind myself is that everyone has scars," she says. "A lot of them even worse than mine. The only difference is that mine are visible and most people's aren't.

Colleen Hoover

#12. 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

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

Somaly Mam

#14. It depends little on the object, much on the mood, in art.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. I love yoga and I feel like yoga for me is incredible.

Miranda Kerr

#16. 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

#17. Love them. Save them. Give them opportunity.

Somaly Mam

#18. Babe, nice lingerie is for seducing a man. I'm already fucking seduced.

Samantha Young