What's the loveliest thing that anyone has ever said to you and it really registered?

Midwife after my horrendous, loooong and traumatic birth..."you were amazing, so calm and you never stopped saying please and thank you! Your baby is going to have lovely manners!"

"Hasn't he got lovely cheeks. And so much hair!".

I was 20 mins old. It's been down hill since then.

More damp eyes here too.

I run courses for NEET teenagers in a deprived area. I had one girl who at the start of the course never said a word. She told me that she had been bullied at school and that every time she spoke she got jeered at - for being a swot if she answered correctly and for being stupid if she got it wrong. The course was 8 weeks and by the end of it she did a presentation to the rest of the class. In the feedback session she told me that I had made a total difference to her confidence and her life- she went and signed up on the spot for a full time floristry course. I still see her every so often and she never hesitates to tell me what a difference i made. It makes it all worth it (and FWIW they were a lovely group who all supported each other that made the difference really)

Bit odd this but I was a miserable bullied severely depressed teenager, I got hideously drunk one night and self harmed to badly an ambulance was called, I was fine but chucked in a police cell to sober up (a questionable decision I feel but ho hum) I could hear the police officer talking to the counsellor that had just arrived and he said 'she very polite and so pretty, you won't believe it when you see her' its the first time anyone without ulterior motive called me pretty and it genuinely helped me. Isn't life strange

We were in a restaurant in Portugal and at the next table were a very elderly Portuguese couple. They were still obviously in love, alternately talking and laughing together and sitting in companionable silence. DH looked at them for a long time, then turned to me and said "That's what I want" .

I couldn't speak.

Mind you perhaps he was taking about their Steak Portugese.

scarybiscuit- I am loving that... smelling of rainbows, think i've now got damp eyes!

On a residential trip one of my students was really homesick and weepy in the middle of the night so I reassured her and sent her back off to sleep.

I saw her in school a while later and she said I was a really kind teacher. I wibbled and had to try not to tear up.

I know she was just meaning the colour and the shape she'd made but it was so flippin' lovely... The other day, on my lap, facing me, 23mo DD held out my long, blonde hair like a fan around my face and said "Mummy, you are the sunshine."

And I guess when DD was about 6 months (OK, I WAS fishing, I have to admit), I said to DP do you think I'm a good mum? He came back with "you're a great mum. I knew you were going to be good but I had no idea you were going to be this brilliant."

A bit creepy... but one of my husband's colleagues and I were chatting about 6 years ago in a bar on the beach in Brighton (a very casual work do!)... we'd been talking about worky type stuff for a good 20 mins, and I took off my sun-glasses and he said, in a very genuine way "you have got the most amazing eyes".

Now, probably he was being a creep- but it blew me away and made me

An autistic lad in my DD class said that i smell of rainbows.... made me have a damp eye...

Recently? I've just had a horrible time at work with a complaint against me, so this week it was lovely to get some great positive feedback from a new client who thinks I'm the bee's knees!

After having DS MIL said to me "you are so relaxed with him... I can feel the beta waves coming off you." I was probably just knackered hence blobbing in a chair holding him all day but it was nice.

My (old, fusty and hard-to-please) tutor at university one day said "You write like a dream!" I always wanted to be a writer but didn't think it was actually possible - that gave me the confidence and now I am.

Once I had some somewhat drastic red highlights put in and was a bit embarrassed by how bright they were. DS exclaimed "Mummy! Your hair is fantastic pink!" After that I just thought, what the hell :)

And DD aged 2 always gives me little compliments that melt my heart. "Mummy, I like you. You are nice." "Mummy I like your boobies. I want grown up lady boobies like you." :o

My marriage broke down when I was pg with my DS. He's 9 months old and my ex husband hasn't seen him since he was 8 week. I've done it all by myself. Re-located built a life and a home for us and we are happy.
In the nail shop (my friends own it) over Christmas treating myself. They play with the baby, we were all chatting and there was another )posh) lady in there and we were having a chat all together about me training to be something new and as I was leaving she asked to get a note out of her purse. Her nails were wet so unthought nothing of it and did it. She said
"Now go but something for your son, something he doesn't need, you are lovely and a great mum"
I burst into tears. The fact she knew nothing about what I had just been through and how hellish the past year was in parts and just saw how happy my son is and that we are good people just caught me off gaurd. Other people see me and him as "a family" and not a broken one.

I took a job at a place where a friend of mine had worked previously. Relationship with this friend is weird in that it is very close, but very un-huggy, never say anything nice to each other etc - and sometimes she can be an unbearable bighead. So when a former colleague of hers, whom I knew her to have been very socially friendly with, said, 'Oh X told me you were coming to work here! I've heard so much about you' - I was bracing myself for her to say, 'X says you drive a beat-up old car/X says you never stop eating/X says you're late for everything' (all of which were/are true, and she'd said to my face before - so I was really shocked and almost burst into tears on the spot when she said, 'Yeah, X said to me you'll really like emsyj, she's just really... kind'.

Was having a conversation with one of my best friends who I really love and think is super cool and always feel grateful that she's my friend. She was about to go on hajj (once in a lifetime pilgrimage that Muslims do), and was very emotional and asking me to forgive her for anything she had done wrong, and she told me I was the nicest person she has ever known, and coming from her that meant sooo much. And I've never told anyone about it before!

This is very minor compared to some of these. A colleague of mine left last week and she gave me a Little Miss Sunshine mug because she said that's how she sees me. Made my day especially as I'm being treated for depression just now and don't always feel very sunshiney.

After DD was born in 2008, my H said to me

"I love you more than ever now have had our child"

It was lovely.

Fast forward 4 years later he walks out after getting obsessed with OW and claims he has been unhappy for years..... Now XH.

But it still remains the most lovely thing that anyone ever says to me even if its no longer true...

When a really great friend gave a personal reference to SS saying she'd changed her wishes with her solicitor so that I would look after her children if her and her husband died.

Megglevache Im not really, children are just easy to brainwash .

Oh and I just about held it together at apple's post but BeaLola, that has tipped me over the edge. Sobbing now.

Think life would be so much nicer if we could say nicer things to each other each day. Loved the story about the bloke on the tube who gave someone a poem. We should raise our sons to be like that!

Hobbitation, DP and I met for our first date at Holborn station in January 1999 and several times in the next couple of months. I wonder if our paths crossed with yours!

I had a boyfriend who was tactless to the point of rude and once when I was in a bout of depression he said "I don't understand how you can ever feel sad, when all you have to do is look in a mirror to see how beautiful you are." I will always think fondly of him for that.
I've had a bad couple of months self-esteem wise and two things have happened that were really lovely. DP and I bumped into an old boyfriend, who was a really lovely man, but I was such a fickle commitment phobe when we dated that I flitted off rather and didn't give him a chance. Anyway, we had a pleasant evening catching up and when we left, he shook DP's hand and said "Well done mate, you're so lucky."
Last week I had a genuinely life-changing one. I have been a teacher for ten years and recently I have been totally disillusioned and unhappy with the whole thing. A lad with dyslexia in my class delivered an amazing presentation and afterwards sought me out to thank me for everything I had done for him. Think he may have saved my career!

One of the nursery staff told me that DD 'has the happiest soul' the other day. I liked that a lot