What makes me happy is a genuine and simple friendship.

What makes me happy is breathing deep and seeing a smile appear on my face while I realize that it's good to live, something I had forgotten for a moment.

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 that everybody is fine.

What made me happy was seeing whales in the distance spitting water, indifferent to the spectators sitting around a fire on this Zipolite beach.

The simplest feeling of happiness is to know that someone somewhere loves you.

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 made me happy was seeing that people haven't yet forgotten Ingrid Bettancourt and her thousand-day-detention, November 19, 2004.

What makes me happy is the surge of love that invades my heart in the most numb of her lyrics…

Happiness is in my nature, I always say that the sun is shining in my head. What makes me happy is loving life and every day there's always the same intensity inside me.

Just now (apart from my wonderful family) the position of France, Germany, Russia, China and of course Belgium on the crisis in Irak, which shows there is some hope left. It gives me an immense happiness.

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

What makes me happy is learning that my parents are going to leave for a lover's weekend. After 23 years of marriage, isn't it still really cute?

My grandfather's eyes that sparkled whenever he saw me arrive. The wind that strokes my face, the sun that warms up the heart and finally, just feeling alive!

I love to feel that boundaries don't exist here, smiles are the same everywhere, they can be exchanged in every language… that makes me happy.

After going on holidays alone, I come back home and I find my dog. It makes me happy.

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

Yesterday at work, I thought myself the black beast and eight girls offered me chocolate. I live in Japan, and, here, it's the women who offer chocolate to men. My day had started very badly, and finished very well…

A moment of happiness: the kiss from this little girl who thanked me for having cured her mommy. What made me happy yesterday was passing the evening with the man I love, dancing all night with him and showing him that his black skin and my white skin show at the same time both contrast and harmony.

My five year old daughter told me : « Mommy, when you die, I will take all my treasures and I will give them to you when you return as a little baby. » That day, I felt a great surge of happiness

When something wonderful appears in my life. Coincidences, signs, dreams which become reality with the impression that it's life which is organizing everything, lucid dreams.

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.

Breathing everyday and going with the flow of my dailyjourney enjoying a beautiful sunny day and if possible near the sea, the lake or a river.

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

What really makes me happiest is seeing happy people around me, and what makes my heart smile is sharing my happiness with others.

What made me happy lately was to hear that I was pregnant after so many fruitless attempts.

What makes me happiest is the love of my future husband who, despite leukemia, helps me to get through life.

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

What makes me happy is to read Happython in Metro newspaper with my beloved chums every day.

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

What makes me happy is going to the Happython site every day, reading the testimonies of people filled with happiness ready to break up the sadness, to put my little foot on the wall, too. That puts sunshine in my eyes for the rest of the day.

As far as I'm concerned, what made me happy was to meet this great guy who I really love a lot.

What makes me happy is seeing my daughters happy and in good health

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

To see my baby's birth.

What makes me happy is to think every morning when I read the happython, that I'm not the only one to think that way

What makes me happy, it is to crochet fine mats and advise some people how to do crochet and knitting.

I'm happy when I'm part of the happiness of the people around me.

Lots of things make me happy : I bought an appartment, I slept with a girl and I stopped smoking !

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

I love to feel that boundaries don't exist here, smiles are the same everywhere, they can be exchanged in every language… that makes me happy.

Surprising a little sparrow while he's taking a bath in a puddle of water, that's what makes me really happy.

What fills me with joy is simply that a smile from me can make my companion happy and make him smile too.

My job!

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

What makes me happy is returning home, soaked, during a storm and hearing the rain beating against the windowpanes while I heat up tea!

Getting married to someone I love. A nice trip with my family. Having a good job!

What makes me happy is leaving work on Friday afternoon and walking in Bordeaux for an hour savoring each minute of the beginning of my weekend !

What makes me happy is doing a task that, I feel, fits with me and my personnality.

What makes me happy ? To create.

What makes me happy is that it's raining today instead of a day when the weather's nice.

A woman makes me happy.

What makes me happy is when I have the giggles and when I laugh so much so that I have a stomachache… I feel so well after shading tears of laughter.

What made me really happy? The first time my son smiled directly at me.

What made me happy Tuesday was seeing my cashier at the supermarket.

What makes me happy is that, though I am agoraphobic, I have made a great friend Pascale thanks to Internet, and I thank her for having friendly feelings for me.

It's to seat down at Cais Do Sodré and look at my country.

What makes me happy is chatting with my aunt on the internet and seeing her smile thanks to the webcam.

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

I no longer remember exactly when, But it was approximately in 1996 that I decided to “do something with Internet” It took me until April 1997 to get together the equipment, the connections and the supplies, but then bang, I saw photos of people far away appearing before my eyes, with immediacy of connection and of memory. Wow. For each question I had to do with actual things, ideas or sources of ideas, or how to do something, etc. etc. I could find the reply in a few minutes, and that's when I realised: One doesn't need to know how to reach one's goal before one has decided it - simply dream it and the answers to how you can succeed are on Internet – even if you wish to work towards an enlightened planetary civilisation…

Having a cat makes me happy.

What makes me happy is the existence of people on this earth who ask me what makes me happy.

What makes me happy : family meetings, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren…

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.

When I left alone to experience giving up everything, I had the impression that I was happy.

What makes me happy is a state of mind and spiritual conscience.

My happiness is eating my favorite meal: pureed sausage.

What made me happy is when my boyfriend proposed to me, but also when the Americans demonstrated against war in Irak.

What makes me happy is when my husband tells me “I love you more than my life!”

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.

Someone who is able to listen to you, to have a discussion with you. Also to be able to open your heart to someone who knows about human qualities.

What makes me happy is when my neighbour kindly offers me « tourtisseaux » to thank me for a small favour.

Happy to hear you smile...

Happiness is when I see my mother again, for whom I'll always be the same kid (even if I'm not this kid anymore) and to see her face lighting up and smiling.

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.