Connie Smith:
CLASS OF 1971
Normal Community High SchoolClass of 1971
Normal, IL
Connie's Story
Connie is from Normal, Illinois. Connie's schools include Normal Community High School. Connie later attended Illinois Wesleyan University. Connie works(ed) at National Funeral Directors Association.
Connie's interests include Animals, Food, Long Reads. Music Connie likes includes Native American Flute. Books Connie likes include The Giving Tree, The Blessings of the Animals, A Dog's Purpose. Movies Connie likes include The Sound Of Music, National Velvet, Chariots of Fire. TV shows Connie likes include None.
One of Connie's favorite quotes is:"The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: What good is it? Aldo Leopold"I have found that it makes a tremendous difference in my life when I stopped defining a good day, as a day when everything goes my way. Instead I define a good day, as a day when someone else has a better day, as a result of something I did or said." Leo Buscaglia, Learning, Loving, and Living"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." -Albert EinsteinJoy is not in things; it is in us. Richard WagnerThere is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will. EpictetusThere is more to life than increasing its speed. GandhiThe soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts. Marcus Aurelius AntoninusI am a part of all that I have met. Alfred Lord TennysonThe world is but a canvas to our imagination. ThoreauTo know when you have enough is to be rich beyond measure. Lao TzuWherever you go, go with all your heart. ConfuciusReach high, for stars lie hidden in you. Dream deep for every dream precedes the goal. Rabindranath TagoreNone of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to the whisper which is heard by him alone. Ralph Waldo EmersonYou are indeed carrying within yourself the potential to visualize, to design and to create an utterly satisfying, joyful and pure lifestyle. Rainer Maria RilkeDo not wish to be anything but what you are, and be that perfectly. Zen sayingOf all created things, the loveliest and most divine are children. William Canton.We have only this moment... sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a ...Expand for more
snowflake. Sir Frances Bacon"In life we're lucky; sometimes things pass from one heart to another." David Runge"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." Mahatma GandhiThe human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man. ~Author Unknown"There are two ways to live your life - one is as though nothing is a miracle, the other is as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein"In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous." Aristotle"When I'm in a blue mood I head for the kitchen. I turn the pages of my favorite cookbooks, summoning the prospective joyful noise of a shared meal. I stand over a bubbling soup, close my eyes, and inhale. From the ground up, everything about nourishment steadies my soul."- Barbara KingsolverOne way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, 'What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew I would never see it again?'� Rachel Carson"Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes." Henry David Thoreau"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years." Abraham Lincoln�If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.�Thich Nhat Hanh"The soul is the same in all living creatures,although the body of each is different."-Hippocrates"When the last tree is cut, the last river poisoned, and the last fish dead, we will discover that we can't eat money." ~ Chief Seattle.Our task must be to free ourselves�by widening our circle of compassionto embrace all living creatures andthe whole of nature and its beauty.Albert EinsteinThere is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature - the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter. The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea, and sky and their amazing life. Rachel Carson".
More about Connie:""The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." Mahatma Gandhi".
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