The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.  Life

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The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. Life - Wallace Stegner

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The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. Life - Julia Cameron quotes