"There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness."
Chinese novelist
1917 -
Are you gentle in your relationships with others or do you run over people with a Mack truck? The myth about creative leaders is that they are temperamental and self-centered. They abuse themselves and others. I think true strength comes in being gentle with others and in being gentle with ourselves. As artists and writers, we can be most abusive with ourselves. Our art never lives up to our expectations. The product is never as good as we saw it in our mind's eye. We should learn to accept the gift that we have been given and not compare our work to that of other people. We are not them. We are each unique in the gift that we have been given.
