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 evil which he believes is the essence of his being and which he believes… — Dorothy Rowe Copy Share Image
We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to… — Dorothy Rowe Copy Share Image
Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer. — Dorothy Rowe Copy Share Image
If you believe that you are bad and unacceptable, you are unable to look back at your past with pleasure or your future with… — Dorothy Rowe Copy Share Image
“...for if we try to go on protecting them we prevent them from growing up to be ordinary, confident adults, capable of looking after… — Dorothy Rowe Copy Share Image
“ 'Not spoiling' a child means trying to break that child's spirit. ” — Dorothy Rowe Copy Share Image
When a depressed person shrinks away from your touch it does not mean he is rejecting you. Rather he is protecting you from the… — Dorothy Rowe Copy Share Image
However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred. — Dorothy Rowe Copy Share Image
After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty. — Dorothy Rowe Copy Share Image
You will have no peace until you have discovered how to forgive yourself, to forgive other people and let them forgive you. — Dorothy Rowe Copy Share Image
“The problem with growing up fearing and expecting rejection is that you cannot enter into adult relationship in the expectation of happiness.” — Dorothy Rowe Copy Share Image
