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

[Megglevache]

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

This is brilliant.

Can't compete with most of these. However, ds1 did once tell me that I was even more beautiful than the big ant he'd just seen in the garden ...

Just a simple one.

I was walking down a very busy street in a town where I live wearing DD1 in a moby sling. I was nuzzling her head and cuddling as I walked throughthe throngs of people on the pavements.

An old man just walked up to me and said "Now that is a beautiful sight"

Oh apple thank you for posting that. I am in that exact situation,feeling like that, & not quite at the happy ending. But we are getting there. Have v moist eyes :)

My friend told me that herself and her dp were thinking about having kids and her partner had said they must have me over more often as I am "the best mum in the world"
I also had a resident in the nursing home i work in refer to me as her angel whenever I was on duty. I loved that, she was my favourite patient ever :)

Between about 5 and 15 I was pretty overweight, can still remember the comments from other kids 'my mummy says you don't need any more dessert because you're fat'. Skip a year, now a size 12, new top, new jeans and en route to a disco ( I am that old) when guy me and my girlfriends had hung out with a loads the year before stopped me and asked me 'who are you, how do you know Claire?......he literally did not recognise me.....

Had just got ready to go out with DH for a meal & DS (2.10 at the time) said to me " ooh mummy you look like a princess" ... I really didn't! but it melted my heart anyway.

THis happened years ago I was living in New York where life is very polarised and I was at the southern end of the pole. (Skint, not getting where I wanted to in my career, etc)

I was walking along a side street in the same clothes I wore every day and an elderly doorman, wearing full regalia including top hat, said to me in an Eastern European voice "such a pretty face". Just that. It made me feel good because I had so little sense of self. I know this is shallow but it stuck with me.

Also it's nice to see this written down because when I caught sight of myself in the mirror this morning (without meaning to iyswim) I nearly jumped away in fright I looked soooo haggard.

Fellow school mum asked if I was going to have a fourth baby soon because our family was always lovely and calm and happy and we looked like we should have another one. This was reiterated by the midwife of the 3rd dc too but dh doesn't agree
Boss also said I was a good mum coz my kiddies actually want to spend time with me.

My friends 6 year old was told my her mum and dad to draw a pic of me and oh when we were visiting. The little girl said 'whenever you draw twinklestar you have to draw a big smile'.

:D

I have had some lovely compliments over the years. One I just remembered from this thread, when I was severely depressed, a boyfriend asked me how I felt:
Me: 'Like a stone'
He: 'Well, a very, very pretty stone then'.

And a colleague once told me I was like an onion, with lots and lots of layers - a very interesting person. I liked that because it was a nice way of complimenting someone who is very private actually (about myself).

When I was 17yo twenty years ago, yikes! and preparing for university interviews, my form tutor told me that I have a beautiful smile and that I should smile more, and make sure to smile in my interviews, as well as in life in general. (To be fair, I was a vair serious/introverted teen.)

I still remember that today. My DCs have my smile, and have been trying to tell DD every day that she has a beautiful smile (which she does).

would you like a cuppa.. i was well chuffed. (im a builder)

My DH told me last week, that I was the best example of 'pay it forward' that he's ever met.

Baffledad you'd love working here then...I make tea and bacon rolls and have even had exceptional builders stay for slap up Chinese :-)

baffledad I kept my builders well supplied with tea and coffee last week (they were seriously fab too, really nice guys, broke al the stereotypes, I would highly recommend them, but you would be hard put to get him as he is booked up weeks in advance - wonder why!)

Just before Christmas DH and I went to DD2's last parents evening of year 11.

One of her teachers (in a subject she is dropping after GCSE) who had also taught DD1 thanked me and DH for turning up to every parents evening over the years. She then said that our DDs were such a credit to us and she wished whatever it was we did as parents could be bottled for her to use when she had her own children.

We are naturally very proud of our DDs but it was lovely to have someone give us credit for their upbringing.

My partner said he would be my penguin :) when penguins mate they stay together forever

It was dd when she was about 4. We had been spending the afternoon in the park and were walking slowly down the long hill in the rain pushing little brother's pram, a wet dark nasty afternoon, and we were singing at the top of our voices to keep those little legs going, because otherwise I knew she would just sit down in a puddle and refuse to go on, and suddenly she stopped and turned towards me and said "You are the right mummy for me".

It is hard to hang onto sometimes, dd and I have been through some rough times, second suicide attempt last week. But I can still hear that little voice.

I've only read a few of these and I'm in bits already! Great thread Meggle.
A colleague once said to me that people always like to be around me because I make them feel good. I was so touched as I was bullied at school and always had a bit of a complex about whether I was likeable.

I was at a bus stop with DS (then 18 months). I was having a rubbish day and was on the verge of tears. DS was crying as he was fed up of sitting in the buggy, so I gave him a book to try and keep him amused. An old lady sat down next to me and said "you're doing really well, look how nice and healthy he looks!". She probably just said it cos she could see I was getting stressed, but I've never forgotten it :)

An ex once said to me that when he lost me, he lost the best thing he'd ever had.. he was a real support to me after that, but died suddenly 8 months later, otherwise who knows what might've been..

My Very Strict, non-affectionate dad a few months ago...
I have had a lousy time over the last few years, ending most recently with an impending divorce. Told my dad in a moment of teariness that i was so sorry for disappointing him. He looked at me like this and said "but love, I could not be prouder of you and how you have coped and what a wonderful mother you are."

Dd aged 6 and I love playing on moshi monsters together. She sent me an animated message the other day with a star dancing and saying ' you are a superstar!' Underneath in brackets she had written 'because you definitely are and I love you' Made my day, a simple but unexpected message

The new chairman of the youth club were I teach young people observed my lesson and told me I was 'inspirational'. I often feel like an imposter in my work life and this felt like a huge confidence boost, especially as we all try so hard as a team to inspire the young people and it was nice to hear that he felt I was succeeding.
My dad, a man of few words, told me that my children are a credit to me and dh. (They are pretty amazing I I do say so myself)
My best friend, out of the blue at the end of a very ordinary telephone conversation said "can I just say that you are my best friend in the world, I love you so much and I hope you know how much I value our friendship." (She can be quite emotional but I know she meant every word and it's lovely to hear)