83 Quotes by Valentin Rasputin

Believe them and they'll you all sorts of things.

And if you don't like it here, you can go somewhere else, where it's better, no road is closed to you.

Life was not a piece of clothing that could be changed ten times. What there is, is all yours, and it's wrong to refuse any of it, even the very worst.

I might have wanted another destiny for myself, but others have theirs, and I have mine. And I'm not sorry about it. It's mine.

A person gets old not when he reaches old age, but, when he stops being a child.

Live, Darya, as long as you're alive, Good or bad, you live, that's what your life has to be. If you swim in sorrow and anger and you get exhausted and wanted to join us-- don't; you live, move, make the world remember that we once lived there. No one's ever been afraid to come join us, there's never been and never will be such a person in our family.

Perhaps the most important thing in life is for each person to stay headed in the right direction within his assigned place and not to veer off in vain or run around in circles on ill-defined quests.

Everything that lived on earth had one meaning only: to serve.

It's sinful with him and lonely without him.