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

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Feelgood please....no mervin' or talking about bum and banjos.

Apple made me weep.

A casual man i was seeing 5 years ago said "sleeping with you is like being in a car crash". He said this was a compliment and it always stayed with me. 7 years after we first met we are now having a baby and will get married soon after. When we finally got properly together he kept saying "I can't believe (my full name) is with me".

I am a teacher (always been around a size 14 with big hips and weight conscious) and a teaching colleague said that a group of ours (girls of 14 to 16) had said "Who is iam ? the English teacher with the amazing figure?

I saw a random man in the city centre who I didnt remember at all and he said hello and then turned to his friend and said "best teacher I have ever had". Any teaching ones mean a lot.

All of these are lovely and I am inspired to now pay some huge compliments to people today - you never know what it is going to mean to people!

A few years ago I bumped in an ex bf who I hadn't seen for 20 years and he said the thing he loved about me most was my intelligence.

I'd been dating my DH for a couple of weeks and he went out with the lads. I had a drunken phone call from the pub. 'Would you ever marry again?' (I'd had a horrible first marriage)

We didn't marry for another 4 years but it was still lovely. :)

When I was in my mid twenties, I hated everything about my life (crap relationship, job, house) and was on a real downer. Used to pick up my friend's 5 year old from school occasionally - Friday before Mother's Day he came out clutching a card that he had made for me that said "Happy Mothers Day for Friends". I still have that card and he is now a hulking 21 year old. He also told me a couple of years later that when I had a little boy he would come to my house and show him how to play Lego and tell him that he had a lovely Mummy.

Coming home from school DS(6) says "when I grow up I'm going to buy that house (points at next door) then I can still see you for cuddles every day", sniff.

"you were incredible" - from the midwife who delivered DC4 following a precipitate labour, unplanned homebirth, undiagnosed breech, and a knot in the umbilical cord. It could have been catastrophic but was the loveliest, calmest day I've ever had, and yes I was incredible and so was she . She said it as we settled down in the ambulance afterwards.

What a lovely, lovely thread. I'm in bits reading it.

My sister and I have both written plays and had them performed in theatres. There was a month where we both had a show within a couple of weeks of one another. Mine had already been on, and my parents, DH and I were at the theatre to watch my sister's show. When it had finished, Mum came up to me and my sis and said "How did I produce such amazing, talented, beautiful daughters? You make my heart swell with pride"
It was very difficult not to cry (in front of lots of people I work with!)

DH got in from work one night, and I was in bed, virtually asleep. He must have been feeling a bit philosophical, because as he got in, he said "You are my constant. You complete me"
It's pretty out of character, and I wasn't sure if I'd dreamt it or not, but it was rather lovely to hear.

These are so great! If only we could remember the good things more often...

When I was around 25 I had just broken up with my boyfriend and was shattered and so so sad. The little 3 year old boy I babysat for loved to bake. One day I set up things in the kitchen to make a cake with and stood him on a chair next to me. He put his tiny little arm around my shoulder and looked at me, gave me a kiss and said 'lovely Golden'. Made me feel so loved just when I needed it!

Its funny how the right thing said at the right time can mean the world.

I am going to try and say more nice things to people, including strangers!

My daughter said she loved me, but she had just started talking and I could not understand her ( she was only about 18 months at the time)

A lady on the school run came up to me and said she liked a picture of mine, and that my business name always makes her smile.
That made my day.

When I was at uni, in my first term, a girl who I had befriended tried to kill herself. I found her, and did what needed to be done while we awaited the professionals. I don't think I did anything that special, just what anyone else would have done.

I got two letters the next day, both of which I still have. One was from the warden of the hall, praising my courage and behaviour in a potentially lethal and difficult situation. The other was from a friend who described my ability to cope as awesome. I think of them both whenever something tough happens, to remind myself of my strength.

I was watching TV with ds (6) last night, the programme was about a girl whose parents couldn't come to her school project presentation and how disappointed she was.
ds said to me 'I know you would be there mum, you could come', it meant a lot to me as I have worked fulltime since he was 16 months quite often feel guilty for it. I try and juggle things around so I can make it to his plays or trips or presentations, sometimes I can and other times I can't. Feeling a bit teary now as I always want him to know that I will be there for him, and that I love him so much.

during last summer a woman working in a shop that i pass on my way to work came out and said to me that I always dressed nicely. she made my day !!

I've brought up my kids on my own, both of their DFs were violent to me and we have always struggled for money. I worked every hour I could and impressed to my DCs how lucky we actually are, because in another age we'd have been in the workhouse or worse.

When my DD was in year 11, I was talking to her history teacher during Parents evening. She told me that "If only I had a class full of PearDaughters, I would be happy".

I walked out of there on a cloud. . It made me feel that everything i had done was worthwhile.

Years later DD admits that at Parents Evenings she carefully steered me into conversations with only the teachers whom she knew would say nice things about her.

However since she is now doing a History degree at Uni she is forgiven!

So many tears from this thread. Cory I really hope your DD finds the strenght to battle on.

I'm lucky enough to have a great DH that is very kind to me, but apart from him I have had a couple of random things stick in my head that others have said.

A friend was telling me about a new girlfriend and how much he liked her. He said that she was "a keeper" because "she's just like you Taking, you could take her anywhere and into any different situation and you know she'd be fine". I was really flattered by that.

And the other is that one of my younger cousins sent me a beautiful letter about a year ago. Her godmother had passed away a year or two before, and in her letter she told me that I was so kind and she loved me so much and would I please be her new godmother. She was 11 years old at the time and her parents told me that it was entirely her idea and she showed them the letter after she had written it and asked them to post it to me. So sweet .

An ex colleague of mine told me it would be very easy to fall in love with me. As I had a huge crush on him it was like music to my ears.
Due to circumstances at the time etc we never took it further but I still think of him fondly nearly 20 years later

absolutely love this thread.

One of the compliments that has always stuck with me was my boss of my Saturday job when I was about 16, she was a friend of my mum's and told her that "cheeseandchive is brilliant with people, whenever she talks to a customer she always makes them feel like they're the only person in the room". That meant so much to me and I still remember it if ever I'm feeling a bit glum about not being good at much!

When I was about 8 and super geeky with buck teeth and all sorts (with a super cute and gorgeous sister) my babysitter's Mum said that she could tell that when I grew up I would be a real beauty. It was such a kind thing to say to such an awkward little girl and I will always remember how amazing I felt and also how differently I looked at myself in the mirror afterwards. Also a totally random old lady came up to me on a bus when I had 2 kids under 2 crying and bawling and just said 'you are doing a great job darling, it isn't easy but you are lovely with your kids' I just burst into tears for about an hour afterwards. Bless her!

20 plus years ago when I'd been working abroad as a holiday rep after jacking in a college course and suffering severe depression, a group of us on the ferry on the way home were passing round our passports laughing at the awful passport photos.

Someone looked at mine and said "it doesn't look at all like you...I know why, I've never seen you not smiling!"

It made me realise I'd completely got over the depression, and it's still the nicest compliment I've ever had.

I was in the supermarket a couple of months ago, feeling stressed and full of pregnancy hormones. DS (8) had been messing around and generally being a bit of a silly boy, I stopped and gave him a wee talking too - nothing too serious as he wasn't being "naughty" just full of silliness.

Anyway as we moved on I clocked this older lady watching me, then she started to come over. I assumed she was going to tell me I should have been harder but she leaned over to DS and told him "I've been a teacher for many years, and you are a very, very lucky boy. You have a wonderful mum there, she's doing a brilliant job"

DH was very confused when he came back from the loo to find me sobbing my heart out in the shampoo aisle being comforted by this lovely lady and DS.

Mine is from almost 20 years ago.

At 15 I had major spinal surgery and wore a body cast for a year. I also moved school directly after the op.

Three years later, when we were leaving school my friend said "You know Yama, I have always admired you. You never once complained about your condition.'

It meant a lot.

At my gran's funeral I wore a pair of 6 inch black platform heels as they were the only decent shoes I had... My mam's cousin came up to me, took one look at the heels and whispered "You're nana always wore heels when she was younger. You pull them off as well as she did"
It made me smile and cry at the same time because although my gran helped my mam raise me, I always felt closer to my grandad than her, until that moment. Sine then, I've realised gran and I are scarily (brilliantly) alike

These are wonderful. I've gone all misty eyed.

I've had a few lovely things said to me but the one that sticks in my mind is when I was confiding in a wise friend how worried I was about teenage ds - mental health, school exclusion problems etc., all while dealing with a life threatening illness of my own. She said "It's tough just now but he will be ok, he will get through this, because you are an amazing mother, just the kind he needs."