#compliments — Public Fediverse posts

Question on my mind:

If someone means to give you a compliment, but to you, it is not,

How do you respond?

#relationship #conversation #compliments #belonging #people

Woman is overjoyed to see her dad cameo in a viral video about kindness after he passed away

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/people-give-strangers-driveby-compliments

Woman is overjoyed to see her dad cameo in a viral video about kindness after he passed away

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/people-give-strangers-driveby-compliments

Woman is overjoyed to see her dad cameo in a viral video about kindness after he passed away

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/people-give-strangers-driveby-compliments

Woman is overjoyed to see her dad cameo in a viral video about kindness after he passed away

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/people-give-strangers-driveby-compliments

“Likes Are Free”

https://www.thestranger.com/i-anonymous/2025/05/22/80068390/likes-are-free

#compliments
#RandomActsOfKindness

A quotation from Josh Billings

The love that a man gains by flattery, is worth just about az mutch az the flattery is.
 
[The love that a man gains by flattery is worth just about as much as the flattery is.]

Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Everybody’s Friend, Or; Josh Billing’s Encyclopedia and Proverbial Philosophy of Wit and Humor, ch. 156 “Affurisms: Embers on the Harth” (1874)

Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/billings-josh/76858/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #acclaim #admiration #adoration #celebrity #compliments #flattery #love #praise

A quotation from Thomas Fuller

Believe not that Men have an Esteem for thee only because they say so.

Thomas Fuller (1654-1734) English physician, preacher, aphorist, writer
Introductio ad Prudentiam, Vol. 2, # 1816 (1727)

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/fuller-thomas-1654/7…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #admiration #compliments #esteem #flattery #praise #respect

Too Seldom Is Heard an #Encouraging Word: Why and How to Offer More #Compliments

https://www.artofmanliness.com/people/social-skills/too-seldom-is-heard-an-encouraging-word-why-and-how-to-offer-more-compliments/

Got three compliments on my nail color recently.
#hot #pink #finger #nail #polish #fingernail #acrylic #tips #self #manicure #left #hand #only #three #coats #cuticle #trim #file #man #male #compliments #today #cafeteria #grocery #store #nice #NewYorkers #NYC

Got three compliments on my nail color recently.
#hot #pink #finger #nail #polish #fingernail #acrylic #tips #self #manicure #left #hand #only #three #coats #cuticle #trim #file #man #male #compliments #today #cafeteria #grocery #store #nice #NewYorkers #NYC

Got three compliments on my nail color recently.
#hot #pink #finger #nail #polish #fingernail #acrylic #tips #self #manicure #left #hand #only #three #coats #cuticle #trim #file #man #male #compliments #today #cafeteria #grocery #store #nice #NewYorkers #NYC

Got three compliments on my nail color recently.
#hot #pink #finger #nail #polish #fingernail #acrylic #tips #self #manicure #left #hand #only #three #coats #cuticle #trim #file #man #male #compliments #today #cafeteria #grocery #store #nice #NewYorkers #NYC

Got three compliments on my nail color recently.
#hot #pink #finger #nail #polish #fingernail #acrylic #tips #self #manicure #left #hand #only #three #coats #cuticle #trim #file #man #male #compliments #today #cafeteria #grocery #store #nice #NewYorkers #NYC

So, my son (18) and I (43), and group of my friends, were out at baseball game last night watching one of our other friends play. One of my friends brought her friend who was visiting from interstate.

Today she comes up to me and says that her interstate friend had asked if my son and I were brother and sister, and when she’d told him that we were actually mother and son he’d been shocked and was sure I wasn’t old enough to have a child, let alone one who is now an adult.

It doesn’t take much to make someone’s day, but telling them they look young enough to be their teenage sons sister is a pretty good way to achieve it.

#compliments #MotherSon #BrotherSister #age #MadeMyDay #LookingGoodForMyAge #FeelGoodVibes #happy