There is no escape from the hours and the days. Neither from tomorrow nor from yesterday, because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us... We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday

what we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow

we would not be who we are today without the calamities of our yesterdays.

I can't go back to yesterday — because I was a different person then.

We are not what happened to us,
we are what we wish to become.

None of us are ever who we were yesterday.

You are not your past.

We ain't what we oughta be. We ain't what we want to be. We ain't what we gonna be. But, thank God, we ain't what we was.

I could tell you my adventures – but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

Me and you, we got more yesterday than anybody. We need some kind of tomorrow.

The past is never where you think you left it: you are not the same person you were yesterday

It is not important to be better than someone else, but to be better than you were yesterday.

Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

I am other I now.