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…

- Dorothy Rowe

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

- Dorothy Rowe

When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you from the foul, destructive evi…

- Dorothy Rowe

If you believe that you are bad and unacceptable, you are unable to look back at your past with pleasure or your future with hope. Only bad things ha…

- Dorothy Rowe

We can love someone without understanding that person.

- Dorothy Rowe

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

- Dorothy Rowe

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

- Dorothy Rowe

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

- Dorothy Rowe