Readers on our Facebook page recall some of their favorites:
The best compliment I ever got was from a friend who was expecting a baby and said "I hope I raise my kids as well as your parents raised you"…. My dad had died in an accident the year before so I burst into tears
Someone on twitter complimented my semi-colon usage. I was flying high for several weeks. I am a nerd through and through
"You're an asshole, but you're our asshole."
I used to work as a newspaper columnist/reporter. I think the greatest thing anyone ever said to me was (and I'm paraphrasing here), "I didn't agree with most of what you wrote or believed, but you did make me think." For someone in media, I don't think it gets better than that.
A couple of years ago a friend of my mother's told me I had so many mannerisms of her, the way I moved my hands, some of my phrases. I lost my mother when I was 10 and really don't have a clear vision of her. This compliment continues to make me feel closer to her.
"I knew I could count on you."
Along the same lines as Winston's post, but from a teacher's perspective … when a seventh grader stares at you with begrudging respect and says, "You fooled us into being better students; you pulled the smarts right out of me."
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