‘The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.’ – Kiran Desai

‘What's past is prologue.’ – William Shakespeare

‘The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.’ – H. G. Wells

‘Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.’ – Beryl Markham

‘Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.’ – Mother Theresa