To Give Without Any Reward

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Sometimes I forget that one of the more lasting effects from acts of kindness is the good it puts out into the world. Driving and slow down to let someone merge in heavy traffic? Maybe that person, now in a better mood, will be kinder to a stressed out store clerk they come across later in the day. On and on the goodness can spread.

About the author

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (June 22, 1906 – February 7, 2001) was an American author and aviator. She was the wife of decorated pioneer aviator Charles Lindbergh, with whom she made many exploratory flights. They were married in a private ceremony on May 27, 1929, at the home of her parents in Englewood, New Jersey. That year, Anne Lindbergh flew solo for the first time, and in 1930, she became the first American woman to earn a first-class glider pilot’s license.