Quotes and Sayings – FindYourBuriedTreasure

Home Sweet Home

I recently read several novels in which someone had to move back—unwillingly and for various reasons—to their hometown. I also have a friend who has lived in numerous cities throughout the country, and who says she’d never want to revisit the place where she grew up, because she’d likely be depressed over how much it has changed since then. “You can never go home again,” states a famous phrase, and that certainly corroborates my friend’s feelings. I understand and accept that time marches on, and [...]

By bettyliedtke|August 26th, 2026|Columns, Family, Quotes and Sayings, Travel, Values|0 Comments

Dream Big!

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll be among the stars.” “If I didn’t try to do twice as much as I could, I wouldn’t accomplish half as much as I do.” I’ve always been inspired by these quotes, and I think they’re especially valuable as we make our New Year’s Resolutions. That is, those of us who still do. I heard on the radio the other day that only 30% of Americans still make New Year’s Resolutions, although I don’t know where [...]

By bettyliedtke|January 1st, 2026|Accountability, Achieving Dreams and Goals, Columns, Holidays, Quotes and Sayings, Success|Comments Off

A Law of Motion—and Writing

Part of Newton’s First Law of Motion—which I’m paraphrasing—states that a body in motion will remain in motion, and a body at rest will remain at rest, until acted upon by another force. I’m planning to use that as my legal defense. Not that my body has been at rest. But my blog has. My last post said that I was going to take a summer break and be off-line for a few weeks. That was on July 1. Obviously, a few weeks turned into [...]

By bettyliedtke|October 13th, 2025|Accountability, Columns, Quotes and Sayings|Comments Off

A Different View

A lot of people honked their horns and waved, or gave us a “thumbs up” as they drove past. But I saw three “thumbs down” signals, and a handful—no pun intended—of middle fingers. One elderly man shouted “F*** you!” several times while waiting for the traffic light to change, and another rolled down his window to yell out, “Are y’all getting paid?” Most of the responses, however, were positive and supportive. My husband and I did something on Saturday that I can’t remember us ever [...]

By bettyliedtke|June 17th, 2025|Columns, Making a Difference, Quotes and Sayings, Values|2 Comments

Let’s resolve this.

One of the members of my writing group is a woman from South Korea. She’s had a difficult life, both there and here, and has shared with us some heartfelt and thoughtful observations about her life and experiences—again, both there and here. At our last meeting, she read a piece that touched on New Year’s Resolutions, noting that once, when she had a January appointment with her dentist, she asked him what his New Year’s Resolutions were. He said he didn’t make any. She wrote [...]

By bettyliedtke|January 21st, 2025|Accountability, Achieving Dreams and Goals, Columns, Holidays, Quotes and Sayings, Values, Writing|Comments Off

Time and Time Again

Well, it’s that time of year again, when we turn over the last page of the calendar—those of us who still use paper calendars, that is—and shake our heads as we wonder out loud: “Where did the year go?” Even though Christmas sales and decorations now start showing up around July, the Christmas season still unofficially starts on the day after Thanksgiving. And since Thanksgiving this year was November 28, the last date it’s possible to be, the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas is crunched [...]

By bettyliedtke|December 3rd, 2024|Columns, Holidays, Quotes and Sayings|Comments Off

Name Blame

“What’s in a name?” Shakespeare wrote in Romeo and Juliet. “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Maybe, but I’ve got some new thoughts about names. I have a cousin named Katrina. I’ve always loved that name—and my cousin. But today, if you say “Katrina,” it’s not my cousin that comes to mind first. It’s the devastating hurricane that killed more than a thousand people in 2005. The city of New Orleans was one of the hardest hit, and damage from the [...]

By bettyliedtke|October 21st, 2024|Columns, Quotes and Sayings, Values|Comments Off

A New Look at the Theory of Relativity

It’s all relative. During the 18 years we lived in Minnesota, we drove to the Chicago area—where most of our relatives still lived—at least two or three times a year. It was a seven- or eight-hour drive, and made for a long day, especially when the kids were young and when winter weather was especially wintery. When we moved to Georgia seven years ago, our daughter was living in Florida. It was roughly an eight-hour drive to see her, and we never had to worry [...]

By bettyliedtke|September 16th, 2024|Columns, Family, Quotes and Sayings, Travel|Comments Off

The Best Advice

“Advice is what you ask for when you know the answer, but wish you didn’t.” I don’t know what philosopher, comedian, or entrepreneur first said that, but I do recall chuckling the first time I read it. And I agree there’s some truth to it. After all, when we’re dealing with complex issues in our lives, or trying to decide on next steps or a course of action, we often find that the answers we were looking for were inside of us all along. We [...]

By bettyliedtke|February 18th, 2024|Columns, Health and Well-being, Quotes and Sayings|Comments Off

September Speed

Okay, raise your hand if you’ve already said – or if someone has said to you – “September?! I can’t believe it’s September already!” Full disclosure: My hand is raised, too. The older we get, the more quickly time seems to fly. Still, there’s something about the month of September that really drives this home. I don’t know if it’s because school starting up again is such a stark milestone – even if we don’t have school-age children anymore, and even if school now starts [...]

By bettyliedtke|September 3rd, 2023|Columns, Holidays, Quotes and Sayings, Values|Comments Off

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