I adore my little kitten's caresses. That makes me happy.

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 !!!

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

What makes me happy is knowing that I am loved for who I am and that fills my heart with emotion to have tears of it in my eyes ! Then I understand that life is more than magic. Thanks to life.

What makes me happy is having sponsored a little african, who comes from Burundi !

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

What makes me happy is to see this little twig of a woman who is my mother smile and laugh, each time it's…

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

A wet spring evening simply makes me happy.

What makes me happy is to be healthy.

What makes me most happy is when I see happy people. That's the reason why I try to make people happy. Sometimes a simple smile is enough…Fortunately there's a universal language that everybody can communicate with: the “language of the heart”.

My 14 years old son has a very worn stuffed bear and I hadn't been able to find one just like it to replace it. Today, I search online and I finally found it. I order four in advance and I feel like the happiest of all mothers.

What makes me happy is to read every morning the Happython when I'm in class. It puts me in a good mood for all the day.

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

What makes me happy is meeting passionate people. They always lend me an admiration like an imprint of their ardor, of their taste for life and love.

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

What makes me happy is thinking that I've succeeded in getting out of many decades of abuse by myself. Others will succeed as well.

What makes me happy is to prepare a good meal when my son comes home.

What makes me happy is to see the others happy, my dearest, my friends, all the people I like.

What makes me happy is when the people in the metro don't look just at their feet but at each other, and smile.

lived my greatest happiness after having gone through a period of depression. I walk outside and I kneeled before the color of the starry sky and I told myself: God it's beautiful!

What makes me happy is eating calamari beignets in the university restaurant.

What made me happy...I was five years old, I wanted a little sister and I got one the day before my birthday. That was my best gift!

What makes me happy is to have been able to get a job on my own.

All my travels.

Whenever I start to really like a person, I look at them straight in the eyes and I tell them that I love them (which is always true) : the glint that I see shine in their eyes, sometimes only for a fraction of a second, fills me with joy, and I am happy.

What makes me happy is getting online at noon each day on one of the computers at med school with Celine and Arthur to leave messages on Happython !

What makes me happy is getting back home after a long day at college, putting my hand in my mailbox and discovering a postcard from someone I love.

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

What made me happy is when I was offered a chimpanzee, which was my dearest dream.

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

What makes me happy, even if it may look strange, it is when I drive to work in the morning.

What makes me happy is to believe in life, to believe in me.

What makes me happy is reading happython every morning in class. That puts me in a good mood for the rest of the day.

What makes me happy is to have the possibility to organize a great party with all the family where my brother could come with his children.

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

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 kind of happiness that will never pass away is giving birth to a child, it is the most beautiful happiness to my mind.

What makes me happy is telling myself that, whatever happens, if we separate or find each other again, whatever time passes, no one will be able to erase our most cherished memories.

I am learning to develop my ability to « not define » life, to melt into it rather than dominate it… and by so doing… I learn to love… and the more I love… the happier I am every day!

What makes me happy is to have left my parents' house.

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

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.

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

What made me happy was when she showed me the stars and blew on my neck to warm me up.

Giving birth to my two children made me happy.

The day I decided to take myself by the hand again (I was quite depressed) made it so that, during this time, life itself made me happy...

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

What makes me happy is to be desired.

I am happy as soon as I get home from the office in the evening and see my child's 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.

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 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.

What makes me happy is thinking that I've succeeded in getting out of many decades of abuse by myself. Others will succeed as well.

I am happy when I travel around the world and get to know different possible ways of being happy.

Tomorrow's day is already making me happy.

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 make me happy are the moments when my son has a great time playing basketball, and flawlessly.

What makes me happy is to have come study french, start to understand it and eat Korean meals.

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

What makes me happy is the idea that people would learn to love each other, without any feeling of racism. The world is everybody's…

I am most happy when people thank me for holding the door for them on the metro. I leave with a lively step to the RER A.

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

What makes me happy is to create as many problems as possible.

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.

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

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.

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

What makes me happy is seeing that the head of a busy bar can stop working for two minutes because he saw a blind man trying desperately to walk across a crosswalk and help him cross arm in arm… that really make me happy to witness scenes like that ! Long live solidarity between people of all horizons !!

What makes me happy is to have been able to get a good education « educazione » !

What makes me happy is to experiment with love.

What makes me happy is freedom of thought and see how deep and creative and generous people can be when they are free.

Hearing that a friend is expecting a baby makes me happy.