Dorothy Rowe Quotes

Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

You will have no peace until you have discovered how to forgive yourself, to forgive other people and let them forgive you.

We can love someone without understanding that person.

After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.

However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.

...we can love someone without understanding that person.

The problem with growing up fearing and expecting rejection is that you cannot enter into adult relationship in the expectation of happiness.

...for if we try to go on protecting them we prevent them from growing up to be ordinary, confident adults, capable of looking after themselves.