Mahira Khan Quotes

I love meeting new people; I think everyone has a story to tell. We should all listen sometimes.

I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.

Be kind. It's worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. If you allow yourself to be somewhat curious - and if you get into the habit of doing that - it's the first step to being open minded and realizing that your points of view aren't totally opposite.

When you connect to someone on a human level, and you get to know about them, you can begin to love the things that make them different.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

I think what's important is to give space to the range of human experience.

You don't accomplish a lot by changing people's opinions by shoving facts down their throat. I think you change people's opinions by opening your heart up and showing the parallels between you and another person. That's how people's ideas shift.

Honestly, I just have to do what's right for me, and what I would tell people is what I believe, which is that tolerance is very important.

We don't get to know people when they come to us; we must go to them to find out what they are like.

Our world is drowning in a sea of self-centeredness. You can make yourself quite unique right away by leaving this ocean of selfishness and choosing to be curious about other people.

I don't expect people to get me. That would be quite arrogant. I think there are a lot of people out there in the world that nobody gets.

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

Every person you meet has a story.

What I do is I always try to educate myself about my neighbors, about the people I meet.

The chance to talk to so many people and understand what they're thinking about and why it matters is really, really so interesting. When you're doing that, you have to truly listen to what people are saying. You can't just pretend to listen.

You have to respect people for who they are on a basic level.

I'm very accepting of how people live their lives.

We have to learn. We have to listen to where people are. We have to listen to where the Spirit is working in the lives of people.

Great conversations always spark in a genuine interest to recognize and know the other person's story and, therefore, recognizing and understanding and celebrating their humanity.

A lot of kids can't identify with the things I've done and where I'm from and who I am as an individual. That's why I've tried to be a person and live my life in a way that can be identified by all cultures.

Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.

As a writer and as a reader, I really believe in the power of narrative to allow us ways to experience life beyond our own, ways to reflect on things that have happened to us and a chance to engage with the world in ways that transcend time and gender and all sorts of things.

I am a curious person and, believe it or not, I really do like to sit back and listen to people's stories.

I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.

My whole thing is feel free to hate me - I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.