A Brand New Day

Past

“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon 

“The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.”
― Alan Moore, V for Vendetta

“My past is everything I failed to be.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet 

“My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.”
― William Golding 

“Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.”
― Dan Brown, Deception Point 

“The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.”
― Barbara Taylor Bradford, Unexpected Blessings 

“Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.”
― Sarah Dessen, What Happened to Goodbye 

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

Present

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
― Mother Theresa 

“It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.”
― George Harrison 

“All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.”
― Martha Graham

“Stop longing. You poison today’s ease, reaching always for tomorrow.”
― Robin Hobb, Fool's Errand 

“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters 

“There was only present, and it was infinite. The past and the future were just blinders we wore so that infinity wouldn't drive us mad.”
― Laini Taylor, Dreams of Gods and Monsters

Future

 “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” 
-Abraham Lincoln

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt 

“It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.”
― John Guare, Landscape of the Body 

“Knowing too much of your future is never a good thing.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief 

“The past is always tense, the future perfect.”
― Zadie Smith

“The future depends on what you do today.”
― Mahatma Gandhi 

“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942 

“Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today.”
― Malcolm X