Boteach Quotes & Sayings

Maybe if you listen to Radio 4 enough from an early age, you just get educated subliminally — David Nicholls

The special life is where the ordinary becomes extraordinary, the natural becomes miraculous, the everyday becomes unique. Finding the magic and wonder within nature is the most assured means by which children rediscover the joy of life. — Shmuley Boteach

When not prompted by vanity, we say little. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Children who are neglected by their parents - despite their parents' best intentions - grow up to feel insignificant, insecure, unloved and - more than anything else - angry. To make children feel important, loved and safe, parents should be physically and emotionally available to their children for a few hours every day, which he calls 'quantity time. — Shmuel Boteach

When I'm drunk with feeling and nature is drinking from my lips and we reflect each other in our atmospheres, then my words come effortlessly and my fingers go into labor ... day or night. — Brandi L. Bates

Ten percent of life is what happens; the other 90 percent is what you do about it. — Shmuley Boteach

None of us is born thinking we are ordinary. Feeling special is an essential part of the human birthright. If you don't think you are special, you won't seek to contribute your gift to the world. — Shmuley Boteach

We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges. — Barack Obama

The good life (for your kids) is where you make the ordinary extraordinary, where you make the natural miraculous. It's where you make the everyday unique. — Shmuley Boteach

Americans consume three quarters of the world's anti-depressants because materialism will never bring happiness. — Shmuley Boteach

There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love. — Shmuley Boteach

One of the greatest advantages of the totalitarian elites of the twenties and thirties was to turn any statement of fact into a question of motive. — Hannah Arendt

Our lives are nothing but a short span of time. And if we spend tons of time earning money that we simply throw away, then we're throwing away part of our potential. — Shmuley Boteach

Women want to be chosen. — Shmuley Boteach

Optimistic parents raise resilient children, but pessimistic parents raise broken offspring. Wherever there is darkness, show your children the light. — Shmuley Boteach

In our current state of human development it remains unclear whether we will correct one of life's greatest tragedies, namely, the inability to appreciate a blessing until it is lost. — Shmuley Boteach

This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity. — Shmuley Boteach

My parents divorced when I was a boy and I have since devoted my life to healing families, which is what my TV show 'Shalom in the Home' is all about. — Shmuley Boteach

But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain? — Friedrich Nietzsche

Haters are my motivators — Ellen DeGeneres

The father is the sun, the mother is the moon and the light they mutually shed on their kids makes them bright stars against a very dark night. — Shmuley Boteach

In your opinion, where do private and political life, personal history and History meet? You know the answer, Maya. You say it unhesitatingly - in art and literature. — Abdourahman A. Waberi

It's your mind you have to train, like your mom said that one time, you have to separate yourself from all the crap, get down to the core, focus. — Cynthia Hand

The best gift we can give each other is the gift of time
those precious, special, eternal moments. — Shmuley Boteach

Jesus Christ is the most famous Jew of all time, but is today remembered as a Christian. Surprisingly, the Jewish community has accepted this distortion of history, and tends to regard Jesus as an apostate. How odd that the Jews would accept a Christian version of one of their brethren rather than seeking to discover the man entombed beneath the myth. — Shmuley Boteach