Benefits

I have a very difficult time being patient with people who cannot add one plus one and come up with two.

Ignoring reality hurts everyone.

It's okay to choose separate roads as long as they all end up in Truth.

Making up stories about things is good, but it is not necessarily truth. 

I know things often work a certain way.  Why they do that is often up for grabs.  As long as people realize that we are probably okay.

The strong personalities I admire the most understand that our differences are not really in our male and female-ness, or the color of our skin, or who we love, or how much money we have.  It is in the way we use ourselves to benefit the world.

It's like that phrase people used when I was small that said if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.  If you can't do something good, it might be better if you did nothing at all.

Of course nothing at all can be as counter productive as hate based, so be careful.

You are the purveyor of your persona, your world,  your life, your happiness, your worth.  Never under estimate that!