Someone once said in front of a large group than I was the only smart person they could stand to listen to. I felt very honored as I saw others nod in agreement.
This was such an impactful compliment for me that I can still hear her voice saying it. I am often complimented on looks or some results I produced, rarely for being smart and certainly not in those terms. Hers is still making impact.
When I was at the end of my a-levels we had a great teacher for art and she made us all stand in a circle (one inner and one outer circle).
Both circles moved contrary and we had to stare into each others eyes for some time, then change positions after a signal.
After that, everyone should share one experience. And this one girl, who was pretty uptight, class topper, super smart but quite arrogant too, she said my eyes looked really warm and welcoming. That was pretty sweet, coming from her
I was told I bring a level of positivity to meetings that is needed sometimes…. After I thought about it I kinda felt like they were calling me naive…. But I choose to see the positive in the compliment.
When I went back to school, I was older 30 at time and everyone else was 19-25 in class. When one girl found out how old I am, she said “Omg you’re going to be a hot grandma, you look like your 22”, at first I was confused but then felt flattered. They all started asking my my skincare routine and products I used.
Someone once told me, “You’re easy to be around, and that’s rare.”
It caught me off guard because it wasn’t about appearance or success, just the kind of presence you bring, and that meant more to me than any surface-level compliment.
Just before christmas I let my boss know that I got a new job, and I watched him quietly panic. He kept having to take deep breaths and his eyes darted back and forth as he realized how fucked he's going to be without me there. Finally, in 22 years there, I felt appreciated.
I was walking next to my house and a bunch of old couples tourists stopped me and started telling me how beautiful i was.
Years later went to another city and another group of tourists were secretly taking picture of me, it was uncomfortable btw, please don't take pictures of strangers.
My first casual dating partner in 20 years told me F67 that he loved my body. Now understand, I am overweight, 5'1 190. I am a 40DD. I have a protruding belly. Cellulite and donuts and flab. But he thinks I'm a goddess. I don't know what I did to deserve this, possibly a lifetime of depression and fatigue and suffering. And then I meet him, who is 9 years younger than me.
He was a neighbor. I've since moved to a new place about 3 minutes away. He works very hard very long hours but we try to get together. So he adores my physical being and I guess I'll take it.
Just a little backstory, we got together 10 years ago but it did not end well at all. We ended up trying to avoid each other all those years. Until one day we ran into each other and he talked me up which shocked me. And then it turns out he still had a crush on me since our falling out years ago.
What's fateful is he is essentially exactly my type. Tall slim good looking, Etc. I honest to goodness don't know how this happened. It was out of the blue, I wasn't expecting it at all. Wasn't looking--not at my age, and I was resigned I would live the rest of my life alone.
I still don't feel great about my body but it sure is great having someone think I'm Marilyn Monroe, from the East ☺️
The MOST unexpected was that I make great eyecontact. It was unexpected but affected me in a bad way, and I feel self-conscious about making eyecontact ever since!
The BEST unexpected compliment was that I say what everyone is thinking, and it opens the door for others to speak up too.
This is one I will never forget because of how direct it was and it was from another female which makes it more meaningful to me lol. I was putting in her rent check for her and she says “you’re so beautiful” I was shocked, an don’t take compliments very well so I said “ Thank you you are so nice” and her response was “ no I’m not, I just tell the truth” and then she left… it stuck with me th whole day lol
That I am an impressive person. It was said in a genuine way and I felt like they were in awe of me. As someone who has done everything for themselves since they were 18, I need the reminder from time to time. It was a great compliment.
My friend was staring at me, and then she said, you are very wise and comfortable to be with, i feel extremely safe and relaxed being with you.
Others told me the same thing without the "wise" part, which made me very happy for months.
“You’re IQ is definitely higher than mine.” From my very smart, professor husband. He then went onto all the ways he’s noticed my intelligence over the years.
“They’re right. You’re not confident, but you’re very brave”. It never occured to me that you can be brave even if you’re socially anxious and stutter when you’re nervous. I used to think I was a loser with no social skills, but this changed my perspective and how I treated myself as a person.
In HS I had a home economics teacher who was my least favorite teacher that year by far and it felt like she hated me. I had a really dysfunctional family back then, and I wasn’t a good student.
Anyway, each pupil in class had to spend a day working in the school kitchen helping the lunch ladies, as part of an assignment for the class. Well, after everyone had a chance to work the kitchen, the teacher said she had something very serious to talk to the class about. I thought someone was in trouble, and her serious and somber tone made it seem that way at first.
She began describing to the class that one of the students so impressed the lunch staff, being the best worker they ever had, the most polite and cheerful and helpful they had ever seen. That this person deserves recognition and blah blah blah giving a whole speech about it. And I kept thinking who even is this person they are talking about. I had no idea. And then she said, all dramatically, “the person who I’m taking about is [my name]” and the whole class clapped. I was floored! I never in my wildest dreams would imagine getting a compliment from this person, let alone a whole speech of compliments.
Anyway looking back it kind of saddens me for young me, because in reality I wasn’t a good worker for the sake of it, but just really really good at fawning in stressful situations, so naturally I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off, trying desperately to please all the lunch ladies.
The most unexpected compliments have to be about my nationality. People guess things like “Hawaiian, Egyptian…” I find that to be such a huge compliment because I feel like I’m being called beautiful. I also get called “exotic” a lot. Maybe that’s why people think I’m from exotic places? I’m Norwegian, Puerto Rican.
While I was working as a waitress at a restaurant rooftop bar, a colleague told me that an older couple in his section, especially the wife had said they thought I was the most unique looking girl they’d ever seen. At first, I remember thinking, that can’t be a good compliment, can it? Unique?!
As I was doing rounds in my colleague's section, I saw the lady smiling and staring at me. I went over to talk to them, and they turned out to be incredibly kind. She told me she loved my hair, my eyes, and how warmly I smiled when interacting with other guests. Looking back now, they didn’t have anything to gain by saying that, it was completely unexpected and genuinely made my day.
Honestly, same fear for half a second 😅 This couple was incredibly sweet, unlike a couple a few years later who did approach me and left a memorable impression… an invitation I very enthusiastically declined.
I was walking up to a table I was serving, and the woman stops me, and just looks me up and down and says, “wow, you are absolutely beautiful. Such a graceful presence!”
That one shocked the hell out of me and made my day a lot better ❤️ and I’m not a super attractive person so it was nice to hear
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I'm a man, but I recently had blood work done and my doctor said I had the numbers of a healthy 25 year old. I'm 50. Also, my fifth grade teacher told the whole class that if one of us would ever be elected president of the US it would be me because of how I treated others. That one stuck with me.
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My sister-in-law during her wedding toast (which we didn't know about until the wedding day). We don't not get along, but I don't think she likes me. Or at least didn't she was always nice, but it felt fake or forced.
She said a few really nice things. The nicest, she told a story about how she didn't trust me when she first met me, "People aren't just that nice for no reason." Was her first impression of me, but as I was around more she realized how wrong she was.
It was really nice, and odd, it was also the first nice then she said that I actually think she meant.
i was talking to my senior nd this was our first interaction, nd she suddenly interrupted me nd said your eyes are so pretty nd im losing myself in em. AAAAAAAAAAAJHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH😭😭😭
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A couple years ago i was in my friends car and she casually said she always thought i had such beautiful eyes. I have hazel eyes that were much more brown when i was younger and no one had ever complimented my eyes before that
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Someone once told me that she thought I was actually a nice person. She said you’re one of those genuinely nice people without a hidden agenda. It was so unexpected because people usually misunderstand me and think I’m mean due to my rbf. I don’t think I’m nice but it was nice to hear.
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“You are such a warm and welcoming person”. That meant so so much at that time in my life, I will never ever forget it. My marriage was in shambles and I had zero self esteem, but it made me rethink so many things. Even if HE didn’t like me, someone thought that of me
This just happened the other day and tickled me pink.
I'm a kindergarten teacher at a very rough, badly supervised school. Most of the teachers are overwhelmed, and the kids are being kids and taking advantage of the situation and running wild. It's been a struggle to stay in control in the midst of the chaos and I am proud whenever other teachers and students compliment my class for being well-behaved.
One of my boys came in the other day and told
me his brother (a second grader who I've only met twice) told him I was strict.
I was amused and asked him if he knew what strict meant. (He turned 6 in October, ftr.)
He nods and says "you're mean, but you do it to keep us safe."
I was at the store and my 5 year old daughter said “mom, why are you so kind?” A man walking by that heard her said “why would you want to be any other way? Be like your mom.”
I'm 33F with a shaved head and while I have been told many times "wow your haircut looks great", I have once been told specifically "you have a beautifully shaped head. Like, of course you would look great with long hair too, but I just want to say your head shape is perfect"
It was a month ago actually, I was walking in the city and this guy walks up to me and asks me to remove my headphones and I say oh and I remove them and he says to me you look nice today. I don't know this man, he's a total stranger, but for a second there I thought I did something wrong or silly in public. I just laughed about it and said thank you.
Before I met my mate's dog I was warned that he's a rescue and very nervous with new people.
So when I met him I just let him come to me when he was ready. He was so full of love and wanted lots of belly rubs. My friend told me I have a very unthreatening presence.
Walking in NYC for Thanksgiving a man called me “lady with the nice eyebrows” (not trying to flirt), he was selling stuff.
I felt that was oddly specific and most complimentary because I don’t do by eyebrows. They’re just moderately thick, with a natural even arch on both sides. It’s also a unibrow, that I technically just shave the middle of.
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I know this is such a simple thing but there was a colleague who once said to me “you must be an angel”. It was out of nowhere, we were working and talking about life stuff and suddenly he says that. It was the first and only time someone ever said something like that to me. And the way he said it wasnt even flirty. This happened probably 10y ago and I never forgot it
Our wedding officiant was a close family friend of my husband’s, an older man. I had been around him a handful of times over the course of the 3 years my husband and I had been together by that point. During the ceremony, he had written a small paragraph about my husband and one about me. It is, to this day, the only reason I wish we’d hired a videographer because he said the most beautiful things about me that shook me. This was not someone I was close with, just knew through husband’s family, and he stood there and talked about how I make everyone feel seen, how I have the most beautiful, kind spirit and how everyone who meets me immediately realizes I’m special. I was floored. My dad started bawling lol. It was incredibly sweet.
I’m in dental school and one of my row instructors in the simulation clinic where we work on fake teeth checked my crown prep for me and said if he had to pick anyone out of my class to do a crown on him, he would pick me 🥹 I needed to hear that because I had been struggling the day before on a different project and was feeling VERY discouraged.
A friend who’s now deceased once told me years ago that whenever she thought of me, she had an image in mind.
She pictured me walking along a forest path with a basket of flowers on my arm, and that I was sprinkling petals as I went. Never looking behind to see where they landed, instead always looking ahead.
She said this was how she viewed me as I walked through life. That this is what I did - leave little bits of beauty as I went, for the benefit of those I come in contact with.
It is still the most beautiful compliment I’ve ever been paid.
And then there was my old bf when I was around 18: „You have the perfect body proportions - if everything was one dress size smaller“ - I was speechless even back then
Someone once said in front of a large group than I was the only smart person they could stand to listen to. I felt very honored as I saw others nod in agreement.
This was such an impactful compliment for me that I can still hear her voice saying it. I am often complimented on looks or some results I produced, rarely for being smart and certainly not in those terms. Hers is still making impact.
When I was at the end of my a-levels we had a great teacher for art and she made us all stand in a circle (one inner and one outer circle).
Both circles moved contrary and we had to stare into each others eyes for some time, then change positions after a signal.
After that, everyone should share one experience. And this one girl, who was pretty uptight, class topper, super smart but quite arrogant too, she said my eyes looked really warm and welcoming. That was pretty sweet, coming from her
My former work colleague told me that although he was happy to see me smiling in my new job, when I left, I took everyone else’s smiles with me.
I didn’t leave the job because of my staff, I just needed a change. It was a wrench to leave them but it was such a lovely thing for him to say to me.
"You have great-looking ovaries!". From my gyno, with the ultrasound lodged up my hooha
You are beautiful inside and out! Haha
You win for most unexpected!
I was told I bring a level of positivity to meetings that is needed sometimes…. After I thought about it I kinda felt like they were calling me naive…. But I choose to see the positive in the compliment.
I was told I’m like human sunshine🥹
This made me smile 🥹
old man at bus stop said i walk like i’ve got purpose and a secret. still riding that high 3 yrs later
Purpose and a secret. I love that!
That I have beautiful ears. The only time I've ever been told that. Maybe he had an ear fetich.
When I went back to school, I was older 30 at time and everyone else was 19-25 in class. When one girl found out how old I am, she said “Omg you’re going to be a hot grandma, you look like your 22”, at first I was confused but then felt flattered. They all started asking my my skincare routine and products I used.
Someone once told me, “You’re easy to be around, and that’s rare.”
It caught me off guard because it wasn’t about appearance or success, just the kind of presence you bring, and that meant more to me than any surface-level compliment.
Just before christmas I let my boss know that I got a new job, and I watched him quietly panic. He kept having to take deep breaths and his eyes darted back and forth as he realized how fucked he's going to be without me there. Finally, in 22 years there, I felt appreciated.
I was walking next to my house and a bunch of old couples tourists stopped me and started telling me how beautiful i was. Years later went to another city and another group of tourists were secretly taking picture of me, it was uncomfortable btw, please don't take pictures of strangers.
Now that i reread my comment, i sound so full of myself, please, im not!!
No it's just cute
My first casual dating partner in 20 years told me F67 that he loved my body. Now understand, I am overweight, 5'1 190. I am a 40DD. I have a protruding belly. Cellulite and donuts and flab. But he thinks I'm a goddess. I don't know what I did to deserve this, possibly a lifetime of depression and fatigue and suffering. And then I meet him, who is 9 years younger than me.
He was a neighbor. I've since moved to a new place about 3 minutes away. He works very hard very long hours but we try to get together. So he adores my physical being and I guess I'll take it.
Just a little backstory, we got together 10 years ago but it did not end well at all. We ended up trying to avoid each other all those years. Until one day we ran into each other and he talked me up which shocked me. And then it turns out he still had a crush on me since our falling out years ago.
What's fateful is he is essentially exactly my type. Tall slim good looking, Etc. I honest to goodness don't know how this happened. It was out of the blue, I wasn't expecting it at all. Wasn't looking--not at my age, and I was resigned I would live the rest of my life alone.
I still don't feel great about my body but it sure is great having someone think I'm Marilyn Monroe, from the East ☺️
The MOST unexpected was that I make great eyecontact. It was unexpected but affected me in a bad way, and I feel self-conscious about making eyecontact ever since!
The BEST unexpected compliment was that I say what everyone is thinking, and it opens the door for others to speak up too.
This is one I will never forget because of how direct it was and it was from another female which makes it more meaningful to me lol. I was putting in her rent check for her and she says “you’re so beautiful” I was shocked, an don’t take compliments very well so I said “ Thank you you are so nice” and her response was “ no I’m not, I just tell the truth” and then she left… it stuck with me th whole day lol
„You look better in real life than in your photos.“
" You're somewhere between regal and angelic. The Greek statues always remind me of you."
That I am "acid". Is it a compliment ?
I'd take it as one!
I was told I smile like I know a secret to happiness that no one else knows.
Do you know a secret to happiness? Please share!
That I am an impressive person. It was said in a genuine way and I felt like they were in awe of me. As someone who has done everything for themselves since they were 18, I need the reminder from time to time. It was a great compliment.
“You know who you remind me of?” “Who?” “Bob Newhart”
My friend was staring at me, and then she said, you are very wise and comfortable to be with, i feel extremely safe and relaxed being with you. Others told me the same thing without the "wise" part, which made me very happy for months.
“You’re IQ is definitely higher than mine.” From my very smart, professor husband. He then went onto all the ways he’s noticed my intelligence over the years.
“They’re right. You’re not confident, but you’re very brave”. It never occured to me that you can be brave even if you’re socially anxious and stutter when you’re nervous. I used to think I was a loser with no social skills, but this changed my perspective and how I treated myself as a person.
In HS I had a home economics teacher who was my least favorite teacher that year by far and it felt like she hated me. I had a really dysfunctional family back then, and I wasn’t a good student.
Anyway, each pupil in class had to spend a day working in the school kitchen helping the lunch ladies, as part of an assignment for the class. Well, after everyone had a chance to work the kitchen, the teacher said she had something very serious to talk to the class about. I thought someone was in trouble, and her serious and somber tone made it seem that way at first.
She began describing to the class that one of the students so impressed the lunch staff, being the best worker they ever had, the most polite and cheerful and helpful they had ever seen. That this person deserves recognition and blah blah blah giving a whole speech about it. And I kept thinking who even is this person they are talking about. I had no idea. And then she said, all dramatically, “the person who I’m taking about is [my name]” and the whole class clapped. I was floored! I never in my wildest dreams would imagine getting a compliment from this person, let alone a whole speech of compliments.
Anyway looking back it kind of saddens me for young me, because in reality I wasn’t a good worker for the sake of it, but just really really good at fawning in stressful situations, so naturally I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off, trying desperately to please all the lunch ladies.
That I am smart. I don’t feel I am smarter than other people I work with. I just feel educated in my field and have a lot of experience!
that i had nice eyelashes. the one time having lots of hair felt nice
The most unexpected compliments have to be about my nationality. People guess things like “Hawaiian, Egyptian…” I find that to be such a huge compliment because I feel like I’m being called beautiful. I also get called “exotic” a lot. Maybe that’s why people think I’m from exotic places? I’m Norwegian, Puerto Rican.
While I was working as a waitress at a restaurant rooftop bar, a colleague told me that an older couple in his section, especially the wife had said they thought I was the most unique looking girl they’d ever seen. At first, I remember thinking, that can’t be a good compliment, can it? Unique?!
As I was doing rounds in my colleague's section, I saw the lady smiling and staring at me. I went over to talk to them, and they turned out to be incredibly kind. She told me she loved my hair, my eyes, and how warmly I smiled when interacting with other guests. Looking back now, they didn’t have anything to gain by saying that, it was completely unexpected and genuinely made my day.
100% thought this was going in a ”We saw you from across the room and really like your vibe” direction for a minute there
Honestly, same fear for half a second 😅 This couple was incredibly sweet, unlike a couple a few years later who did approach me and left a memorable impression… an invitation I very enthusiastically declined.
They're the worst! Glad this one ended up so sweet.
I was walking up to a table I was serving, and the woman stops me, and just looks me up and down and says, “wow, you are absolutely beautiful. Such a graceful presence!”
That one shocked the hell out of me and made my day a lot better ❤️ and I’m not a super attractive person so it was nice to hear
I was once told that I was the most authentic person she knew and that she loved that about me. It caught me off guard, but I cherish the memory now
I was told my hair is c*nt. Apparently, it's a compliment
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I'm a man, but I recently had blood work done and my doctor said I had the numbers of a healthy 25 year old. I'm 50. Also, my fifth grade teacher told the whole class that if one of us would ever be elected president of the US it would be me because of how I treated others. That one stuck with me.
I LOVE the compliment, but I have bad news about the US president and kindness.
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Someone said they really liked my nose ring and I don’t think no one ever like actually complimented me only for my nose ring.
Also got told my feet are nice by how many people.
My sister-in-law during her wedding toast (which we didn't know about until the wedding day). We don't not get along, but I don't think she likes me. Or at least didn't she was always nice, but it felt fake or forced.
She said a few really nice things. The nicest, she told a story about how she didn't trust me when she first met me, "People aren't just that nice for no reason." Was her first impression of me, but as I was around more she realized how wrong she was.
It was really nice, and odd, it was also the first nice then she said that I actually think she meant.
i was talking to my senior nd this was our first interaction, nd she suddenly interrupted me nd said your eyes are so pretty nd im losing myself in em. AAAAAAAAAAAJHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH😭😭😭
A 6 year old kept staring at my face and then touched my cheeks saying "Wow you are getting cheeks".
He teased me saying I get more cheeks when I smile and kept looking at my face very often and giggled each time.
He was talking about my apple cheeks and now I can't stop noticing it lol.
"Your nose is very jizzable looking"
Still have no fucking idea what that meant.
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A couple years ago i was in my friends car and she casually said she always thought i had such beautiful eyes. I have hazel eyes that were much more brown when i was younger and no one had ever complimented my eyes before that
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Someone once told me that she thought I was actually a nice person. She said you’re one of those genuinely nice people without a hidden agenda. It was so unexpected because people usually misunderstand me and think I’m mean due to my rbf. I don’t think I’m nice but it was nice to hear.
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“You are such a warm and welcoming person”. That meant so so much at that time in my life, I will never ever forget it. My marriage was in shambles and I had zero self esteem, but it made me rethink so many things. Even if HE didn’t like me, someone thought that of me
He told me he thought I was a shaman. I realized later that he'd seen me talking to trees several times.
This just happened the other day and tickled me pink.
I'm a kindergarten teacher at a very rough, badly supervised school. Most of the teachers are overwhelmed, and the kids are being kids and taking advantage of the situation and running wild. It's been a struggle to stay in control in the midst of the chaos and I am proud whenever other teachers and students compliment my class for being well-behaved.
One of my boys came in the other day and told me his brother (a second grader who I've only met twice) told him I was strict.
I was amused and asked him if he knew what strict meant. (He turned 6 in October, ftr.)
He nods and says "you're mean, but you do it to keep us safe."
When i was in school a guy said that I reminded him of rapunzel.
I was at the store and my 5 year old daughter said “mom, why are you so kind?” A man walking by that heard her said “why would you want to be any other way? Be like your mom.”
One of my exes said out of nowhere: "Your ears are so cute!"
I'm 33F with a shaved head and while I have been told many times "wow your haircut looks great", I have once been told specifically "you have a beautifully shaped head. Like, of course you would look great with long hair too, but I just want to say your head shape is perfect"
It was a month ago actually, I was walking in the city and this guy walks up to me and asks me to remove my headphones and I say oh and I remove them and he says to me you look nice today. I don't know this man, he's a total stranger, but for a second there I thought I did something wrong or silly in public. I just laughed about it and said thank you.
"You have the most perfect posture" By another mom back in pre K days
“You have an effervescent smile.”
Before I met my mate's dog I was warned that he's a rescue and very nervous with new people.
So when I met him I just let him come to me when he was ready. He was so full of love and wanted lots of belly rubs. My friend told me I have a very unthreatening presence.
Weird but good compliment I think.
Walking in NYC for Thanksgiving a man called me “lady with the nice eyebrows” (not trying to flirt), he was selling stuff.
I felt that was oddly specific and most complimentary because I don’t do by eyebrows. They’re just moderately thick, with a natural even arch on both sides. It’s also a unibrow, that I technically just shave the middle of.
Someone once said I looked like Kelly Rowland and I was like.....no, seriously? Lol
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I know this is such a simple thing but there was a colleague who once said to me “you must be an angel”. It was out of nowhere, we were working and talking about life stuff and suddenly he says that. It was the first and only time someone ever said something like that to me. And the way he said it wasnt even flirty. This happened probably 10y ago and I never forgot it
Our wedding officiant was a close family friend of my husband’s, an older man. I had been around him a handful of times over the course of the 3 years my husband and I had been together by that point. During the ceremony, he had written a small paragraph about my husband and one about me. It is, to this day, the only reason I wish we’d hired a videographer because he said the most beautiful things about me that shook me. This was not someone I was close with, just knew through husband’s family, and he stood there and talked about how I make everyone feel seen, how I have the most beautiful, kind spirit and how everyone who meets me immediately realizes I’m special. I was floored. My dad started bawling lol. It was incredibly sweet.
I’m in dental school and one of my row instructors in the simulation clinic where we work on fake teeth checked my crown prep for me and said if he had to pick anyone out of my class to do a crown on him, he would pick me 🥹 I needed to hear that because I had been struggling the day before on a different project and was feeling VERY discouraged.
Friend told me I scared him but in a good/impressive way.
A friend who’s now deceased once told me years ago that whenever she thought of me, she had an image in mind.
She pictured me walking along a forest path with a basket of flowers on my arm, and that I was sprinkling petals as I went. Never looking behind to see where they landed, instead always looking ahead.
She said this was how she viewed me as I walked through life. That this is what I did - leave little bits of beauty as I went, for the benefit of those I come in contact with.
It is still the most beautiful compliment I’ve ever been paid.
My boss at the time to my husband at the time: „I hope you realize what an unusually talented and competent wife you have!“
And then there was my old bf when I was around 18: „You have the perfect body proportions - if everything was one dress size smaller“ - I was speechless even back then