You are not your past.

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

You aren't your past, you are probability of your future.

It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The present is merely the past rolled up and concentrated in this second of time. You, too, are your past; often your face is your autobiography; you are what you are because of what you have been; because of your heredity stretching back into forgotten generations; because of every element of environment that has affected you, every man or woman that has met you, every book that you have read, every experience that you have had; all these are accumulated in your memory, your body, your character, your soul. So with a city, a country, and a race; it is its past, and cannot be understood without it.

i do not wish
to change the past
it made me
who i am today
i only want
to learn from it
and live in a new way

You think your past defines you, and worse, you think that it is an unchangeable reality, when really, your perception of it changes as you do.

Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today.

I am not who I was, but I know who I am.

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

I am not what happened to me; I am what I choose to become.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

You know the past only in the present and as part of the present.

You are what you are not and are not what you are.

Don't treat me like I am something that happened to you.