You remember the compliment someone gave you years ago. They forgot. Give them away freely.

The exchange rate is absurdly in your favour. A sentence that takes four seconds and leaves no trace in the person saying it can sit in somebody else for a decade, getting taken out on bad days and read again. You are almost certainly carrying one yourself right now from a teacher who would not remember saying it.

So stop rationing them. Three this week, said out loud and specific enough to be true: to a friend, to somebody at work, to whoever at home does the unnoticed jobs. It will feel slightly awkward, because nobody practises this, and the awkwardness costs you nothing at all.