One I received most recently after attending a casual, mini HS reunion.

My peers (some I have known since Elementary school!) remarked that I managed to come out so good considering the bad childhood I had as well as terrible parents. ❤️‍🩹

Being told that I was hot enough to bartend at a bar with hot female bartenders! Oh to go back to then…

An NHL hockey player told me "wow", "you look beautiful", and "I wish I was going where you're going" while we were waiting for an elevator together at the Boston RC on March 15, 2024. I grew up painfully, humiliatingly ugly in the late 90s and early 00s, obese with frizzy hair and cystic acne, no instruction or guidance on how to be feminine or how to take care of myself as a girl or woman. I felt like I looked really good that particular night so the external validation was nice. I wished I could go hug my teenage self and tell her look honey we made it

I receive many compliments on my appearance, but my favorite compliments are that I am highly intelligent, that I am helpful and that I have great ideas.

I played center on my high school’s basketball team. The local newspaper said I was “more than adequate.”

An girlfriend said what she liked most about me was I wasn’t “too good looking.”

Anonymous wrote:On her deathbed, my mother told me I was a great daughter to her. To be fair, I’m her only daughter, but it was still nice to hear.

On (or at least near) her deathbed my mother told me we had raised great kids.

All these are awesome! Keep them coming! You people are fabulous!

I’m not sure this is the best one I’ve received but I still laugh about it. I teach in a junior high. A ninth grade girl was giving a tour to 6th graders at the end of the school year. She walked through my area, pointed me out to them and said “that’s Mrs x, she’s always really fashionable.”
Not “I recommend good books” or “I help them with their chromebooks” but that I’m stylish.

Maybe eight years ago a student told me I was the most brilliant professor she'd ever had. Female professors rarely get those kinds of compliments.

I’ve been told I’m funny, which I appreciate because I like to put people at ease and make them laugh. I had someone once tell me I am a funny writer like Dave Barry and I still remember beaming from that compliment. I often try to drop compliments to people, even strangers-you never know how it might brighten their day and lift their spirits. Compliments are nice.

On her deathbed, my mother told me I was a great daughter to her. To be fair, I’m her only daughter, but it was still nice to hear.

Anonymous wrote:My mother had an elderly friend (who I had never met) who she took to lunch weekly but just before my mother died, the friend was diagnosed with Parkinson's. I called the friend after my mom had died to check in/ see how she was doing and she said "I'm so happy you called. No one ever calls me. You are just like your mother." And that was a great compliment.

You are so lucky that “you are just like your mother” is a compliment you cherish. I hope my kids feel that way about me some day, it says a lot about your mom.

One time at the Mormon Temple Christmas display in Kensington, a man (who may or may not have been mentally ill) came up to me and said “Your aura glows.”

My mother had an elderly friend (who I had never met) who she took to lunch weekly but just before my mother died, the friend was diagnosed with Parkinson's. I called the friend after my mom had died to check in/ see how she was doing and she said "I'm so happy you called. No one ever calls me. You are just like your mother." And that was a great compliment.

When she was about 8, my daughter (now in her 20s) was talking to me about our family and said:
“I love Dad because he goes camping with me, Ben because he sometimes plays with me, Peter because he’s so cute, and you because you fill in all the rest.”
Best thing that anyone has ever said to me.