Dorothy Rowe famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Depression #Suffering #Prison
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 can injure you.
-- Dorothy Rowe

#Depression #Believe #Mean
However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.
-- Dorothy Rowe

#Self #People #Hatred
After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.
-- Dorothy Rowe

#Children #Parent #Done
You will have no peace until you have discovered how to forgive yourself, to forgive other people and let them forgive you.
-- Dorothy Rowe

#Mistake #Errors #People
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 happened to you in the past, and only bad things will happen to you in the future.
-- Dorothy Rowe

#Believe #Past #Optimism
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.
-- Dorothy Rowe

#Believe #Order #Be Good
We can love someone without understanding that person.
-- Dorothy Rowe

#Understanding #Persons

Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now!
Tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
suffering is the essence of success!!!
If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.
To work and suffer is to be at home. All else is scenery ...
Indians don't last in prison. They weren't born for it like the whites.
Not all prisons have bars
Prisons do not disappear problems, they disappear human beingsâ€¦
Poor people, people of color - especially are much more likely to be found in prison than in institutions of higher education.
I'm involved in the work around prison rights in general.

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