If you are out of trouble, watch for danger

It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it.

Just so much trouble there, ... So much danger.

Through danger safety comes - through trouble rest.

My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss.

He who waits for a dead man's shoes is in danger of going barefoot