Attitude
If you don’t learn to maintain a positive attitude throughout your life, stronger and stronger as you grow older, you have missed a large part of what you could have done or enjoyed. You will never know how many people or situations turned their back on you, refusing to associate with negativism.
––John Roberts
Time
You will never have a more challenging and rewarding time management problem than in the time before you die.
––John Roberts
Diagnosis
Diagnosis is Act I, not the final curtain.
––John Roberts
Living
The more you live, the less you die.
––John Roberts
Heart
No heart ever broke down under the weight of its greatest qualities. But, its metaphysical development requires just as much consistent effort as the cardiovascular.
––John Roberts
Self-Respect
The damage to your past performance from fault and failure is not as serious as the damage you allow to your self-respect.
––John Roberts
Spirituality
Spirituality is one of the primary qualities that distinguishes us from all the other creatures. The wonder of it is that it is so broad and self-defining that every one of us can build one and benefit from it in any way we wish so long as it does no harm to others.
––John Roberts
Afterlife
Afterlife is not an escape; if you believe, and desire its benefits, it becomes your responsibility to conduct your life and its transition with a peaceful and deserving modesty.
––John Roberts
Love
Here I am. Please take care. I will give you everything I have. I expect the same.
––John Roberts
Aging
Aging is putting the final touches of genius on a grand work of art, including painting over the earlier mistakes.
––John Roberts
The Great Adventure
An adventure is more than something new and risky. It is another muscle in your great heart.
––John Roberts
Cancer: 100 Ways to Fight
A Positive Guide for Patients, Survivals, Caregivers, and Loved Ones
by John Roberts
Death
Don’t let the fear of dying ruin the rest of your life.
––John Roberts
Regrets
Our life is a trail strewn with the memories of our mistakes and failures, a dangerous path we must not retrace or dwell on even as we carry along the hard, heavy lessons we must depend on as we go forward.
––John Roberts
Symptoms
Cancer is so pervasive, and initially so insidious, that if you don’t learn and actively look for early symptoms of many kinds of cancer, you may be too late and are committing long-term suicide. Early detection is the best prevention.
––John Roberts
Winning
The real winner knows that winning is a personal philosophy and a way of life that requires a quantum jump into a comprehensive, deeply embedded attitude and belief system. That system sees personal goals with a different vision that most others do not understand or feel the need to achieve. The real winner has developed a different kind of brain for overcoming difficulty and finding happiness with a mind that automatically pursues exceptional achievement with intense coordination and effort.
––John Roberts
Perseverance
The great leaders all say the same thing: The principle element of success, above all the others, is simple persistence: the determination and drive to refuse to quit and to keep going when you don't feel like it, when the obstacles are high and your morale is low. That is when the successful person breaks out of the pack and leaps over failure.
––John Roberts
Spirit
Spirit is the core of a person, visible in personality, but something much deeper in character and soul. It is as though the other meaning of the word, a supernatural being, inhabits some people and gives them that special fire.
––John Roberts
Future
It is wiser to think of the future as a road without end rather than the last house on the road.
––John Roberts
Solitude
Solitude is my greatest solace and my greatest strength, because that is when my mind is at its best.
––John Roberts
Responsibilities
Responsibility begins with clearly understanding and firmly accepting that YOU are and will be responsible and accountable. Only then can you meet your responsibilities to yourself and then successfully turn to fulfilling your responsibilities to others.
––John Roberts
Grief
It is enough for death to take one life, not two. Just as the dying must find peace before they go, the living must find peace afterward.
––John Roberts
Last Words
Last words are like last sex; you hope for something inspirational and that it might not be the last after all.
––John Roberts
