Luol Deng Quotes

It's funny how life works. You end up sometimes back where you started.

You never know how times will change in where you are in your life.

Life is an aggregate of experience, which continually surprises us.

I've loved my 20s, but I would never repeat them.

I have a lot of those 'Forrest Gump,' I-was-there moments.

I'm a believer of destiny, and I believe I'm destiny's child. I've seen the highs, and I've seen the lows, and I believe things happen for a reason and always for the best.

It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.

You don't have that much choice in your life, which is one of the big lessons I've learned. I was going to be a designer whether I wanted to be a designer or not.

It's just what it is. It just all happened in my stride.

My life was really interesting before 'Chic.'

Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't have believed it.

Wherever we are in life is where destiny has brought us. It doesn't mean we have to stay there.

If I could write a letter to my teenage self, I'd probably say something like: 'You ain't gonna believe what will become of you.'

I don't regret anything and what I have done in my period of my life. Everything happens for a reason, and that's why I am here.

Every time I've moved, my work has changed radically.

Nothing teaches you like getting leveled. And I got leveled in my early 30s. Nothing went exactly the way I thought it would.

Everything that happens is meant to be. It's meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that it's meant to be disaster.

I just thought that I had had my fill for a while and wanted to have a family. My husband was moving to Chicago for his job. And so I went along. And it was a great thing that I did.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

I saw a person that I never thought I would ever become.

I don't really believe in regrets. I think everything happens as it should, and everything is an opportunity to learn.

Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.

I think things happen, and we have no control over them, and what you take from them is really what is important.

Looking back, I can see that my life with David was molded by forces beyond my control and even my understanding. Still, I don't regret trying.