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There is greatness in doing something you hate for the sake of someone you love.
Shmuley Boteach
2.
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
3.
Americans consume three quarters of the world's anti-depressants because materialism will never bring happiness.
Shmuley Boteach
4.
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
5.
Ten percent of life is what happens; the other 90 percent is what you do about it.
Shmuley Boteach
6.
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
7.
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
8.
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
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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
10.
Optimistic parents raise resilient children, but pessimistic parents raise broken offspring. Wherever there is darkness, show your children the light.
Shmuley Boteach
11.
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
12.
Women want to be chosen.
Shmuley Boteach
13.
This is a generation that is really detached from the core, human values that lead to dignity.
Shmuley Boteach