What makes me happy ? Scouting when I was young, then my commitment to a trade-union and a political party, my family – children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and hearing that my great-grandson Guillaume will soon be christened.

What makes me happy is to share my newspaper with somebody next to me in the tube that reads over my shoulder!

My greatest happiness has been the birth of my two children! One boy one girl:

For me, what makes me happy is accomplishing the tasks I have to do... however small they are... the satisfaction of finished work...

My fall in the bus this afternoon because a good-looking boy gave me a smile and helped me to get up

What makes me happy is thinking through the best moments I've lived to determine which one is the best and thus reliving them.

I am happy when I am loved for what I am.

What makes me happy is life in general  Lots of good things happen to me, like my three boys...

For me, it's the sea that makes me happy!!! When I see it or just even think about it I feel good deep inside. It might be quite trivial but the blue ocean makes me happy.

What makes me happy is holding one of the metro's double doors, while exchanging a smile, and vice-versa.

What makes me happy is staying in contact with my old friends and making new friends.

For me, happiness is a content life as a couple, sharing intense moments with another person, who I'm anxious to find again...

What makes me happy is to listen to Danièle's music, dance the tarentelle and tammurriata and sing with my friends (especially napolitean songs).

What makes me happy is seeing her in the morning, brushing her teeth in her robe, her gaze far away. I look at her, and our eyes meet.

What makes me happy: to know that even far away, we can count on friends !

What makes me happy is to please to my parents so that they are proud of me. Thank you Dad and Mum, I'm madly in love with you!!!

Happiness for me is to get miraculously cured of my disease.

Surprising my brother and seeing the happiness on his face, that's enough to make me happy.

My most beautiful moment of happiness was when my love, Nuno Filipe, had prepared for me the most beautiful Valentine's day…. We went to the highest place in the region. Without me noticing anything, he took out two crystal glasses of champaign and a red roses bunch where there was a little note: with lots of love. And the best: a ring, a solitaire and the most important, lots of love…

Oh… little everyday trifles make me happy … a smile, a hand in mine…a look, a laughing child…happiness is very relative…but we must know to appreciate the little things.

What makes me happy is to please to my parents so that they are proud of me. Thank you Dad and Mum, I'm madly in love with you!!!

The fact that I've met my soul mate makes me happy.

What makes me happy is to see his first name show up on my cell phone when at the same moment I'm thinking of him.

What makes me happy, today, is seeing a magnificent carpet of dead leaves at the foot of a tree and hearing a bird singing on the bare tree.

What makes me happy is seeing my reflection in the eyes of my son.

The light and sparkles in children's eyes sometimes make me feel like crying with happiness.

What makes me feel really happy is to be free to act, speak and realise my dreams.

What makes me happy is wheever I go beach and watch the clouds.

What makes me happy is to be at the bottom of a mountain, a hill…watching the top and say to it: “see you soon”… To walk, sweat, breath, sometimes to suffer a little… and reach the top and think: “I've done it, thank you”. Just a challenge with nature. This is one of the most wonderful things in the world.

What made me happy : learn that Caro and Math are excepting a baby !

Having brought to light a vocation. My son was studying Sociology and Economic Sciences at the University of Jussieu. One summer I forced him to work in a hospital to earn some pocket money. He dropped his studies to study at the I.F.S.I. (Nurses Training School) Today, at 25 he is happy, his job is a true vocation. His patients are happy and me too, I'm happy

What makes me happy is seeing her in the morning, brushing her teeth in her robe, her gaze far away. I look at her, and our eyes meet.

An evening between friends, with a little to drink of course. One of them accompanies you back to your taxi, one of the ones with whom you share the same complicity and sensitivity. And on a « goodbye » you steal a kiss from him, instead of an ordinary « see ya soon ». A kiss that lasts for a little while, a kiss he returns. The kind of kiss that makes you smile each time you think about it again and makes you happy.

What makes me happy : Luigi who plays the guitar !

What makes me happy is to be with my friends with a friend called Sasi, and also Fiore and Dolores.

What makes me happy is my man's love.

What makes me happy is to see the smile of people I like and the sunset. It's to hear the voices melody and children laughing. It's to smell flowers perfume and that of hot coffee. It's to feel under my fingers the softness of the skin and the grains of a fine sand beach…

Brought up and educated in Brazzaville, The Congo, by missionaries. A war has broken out... Everything is destroyed, the town devastated, there is nothing to be found anywhere. However with courage the sisters go back to work, open the nursery and primary schools without any materials. They send out an SOS to ex-pupils of which I am one. Since that time I am running around the shops with my limited means of a retired person. Paints, folding books, etc. etc.... meetings with the people who will carry my packages to Brazza. And in return I receive letters and drawings from little children thanking me and calling me godmother and sometimes mother, this is happiness !!!

What made me happy was when I could walk again for the first time after my operation, when I had been paralyzed.

What makes me happy is telling myself that I am going to see the man of my dreams on my right during my classes.

Laughing and playing with my son and swimming in the ocean

What makes me happy is when in the dreams' fall when the breath of the day raises my eyelids, I'm aware that the moment when finally I'll be free is close. Every minute, every second that goes by is a step towards our reunion, my darling, my Night, my life.

Hugs!

What makes me happy ? To be a granny, nothing is more beautiful than to see your family grow larger and be able to play the doting mother again. It makes you feel young again.

What makes me happy is seeing my bunny thanks to the webcam.

What makes me happy is the generosity of people who support Florence Aubenas and Hussein Hanoun. Finally solidarity doesn't end.

What makes me happy is to love and be loved

What makes me happy is having discovered Happython planet ! and sharing my happiness with others. I have hope for the best days.

I'm happy when my pupils smile in class and when they seem to be happy to be at school.

What makes me happy is to eat everyday with my friends, each bite is for me a breath of life.

What makes me happiest is all the little daily pleasures... Why search so hard, look what we have near

So passionate, so tender, to hold me in your arms, kiss me gently and… tu make me fall on the bed ! You are so clumsy, my love, but how I love you, ooof ! I think about it in the metro, and I burst out laughing. I am happy.

My happiness is complete when I let the metro pass to keep kissing my love on the latform...telling myself that I'll take it maybe the next day or the day after that.

I'm a naturally happy person because I've learnt to see only the nice and positive side of what happens.

What makes me happy is seeing my parents together.

What does make me happy is to watch the waves lapping on the fine sand

A child's spinning top on the carpet. What a pleasure to approach it, having watched it from afar, the memories coming back of those exquisite moments where colours mingled and filled rainbow eyes. I lean over, touch the top and play with it and that simple pleasure warms my heart, it turns, turns, turns...

What makes me happy is girls.

What makes me happy is to be with a friend and with the kids.

What makes me happy is listening to Metallica while petting a kitten.

What makes me happy is nature. Walking in the grass or on a beach, lying in fields, watching the sunset, picking wild leeks to make an omelette with them.

I'm happy every morning when my man snuggles up to me saying: “good morning, darling, I'm here next to you”. I shiver.

What makes me happy is to see happy sports people.

My children ‘s smiles make me happy.

The day when my daughter Nouha was born, on July 4th, 2004 made me happy.

What makes me happy is thinking through the best moments I've lived to determine which one is the best and thus reliving them.

What makes me happy is to be pretty.

What makes me happy is really knowing that one day I'll have enough power to spread love and happiness.

What makes me happy, a great privelege in my heart, when my little 4-year-old friend, Joey, takes my hand, taking this gesture of love from this child who moves me, but completely... I become gaga with...

What makes me happy is to see that people can work together to overcome difficulty.

The purest moment of happiness was my fiance's return to France after eight months spent in prison, in Turkey... All that because he had taken some papers! For now, it's my most beautiful moment.

What made me happy ? It is probably slight …I met a totally exceptional man on a chat one year and ten days ago (de visu).

What makes me happy is spending time with my friends, going out with them, sharing my deepest thoughts with them and feeling their trust.

This morning, while feeding my fish, the ingrates finally recognized me ! I was crazy with joy ! (laughs)

What makes me happy is little everyday moments like for example : sitting on the edge of a lake and contemplating nature, horsebackriding in the woods, among other examples.