Adam J.T. Robarts

Nineteen: 19 Insights Learned from a 19-year-old with Cancer Adam J.T. Robarts

What can we learn from a young life beautifully lived, especially when that life is put to the ultimate test? What truths are meant to flourish long after any one individual stops walking this earth?

Nineteen is a book of nineteen lessons learned from Haydn Robarts, whose short life profoundly changed all around him. Written by his father, Adam Robarts, Nineteen combines personal memoir, reader-directed lessons, insights from religion and science, and perspectives from Hadyn's parents. The result is a work that ultimately inspires an awareness, an awakening, and a mindset toward living this precious life with purpose and clarity. It will leave you in awe of a young man who contributed so much in such a brief time and also in awe of the possibilities for your own life.

The philosopher is not influenced by praise or blame. He knows the truth and is not afraid, regardless of what happens to him in this world.
--Tao Te Ching, LXVII

Live a life filled with joy and try to consciously consider how to bring joy to the lives of those around you as well.
--Haydn Robarts

"Haydn's message is pure inspiration."
--Rainn Wilson, actor, producer, author of New York Times bestseller SoulPancake: Chew on Life's Big Questions

"Enough! I was in tears reading Haydn's story and the lessons learned from this inspiring young man. The beauty of Nineteen is that those are tears of sadness blended with tears of joy."
--Justin Baldoni, filmmaker, social activist, author of Amazon Editors' pick (2021) Man Enough: Undefining My Masculinity