Laughing and playing with my son and swimming in the ocean

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?

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 makes me happy is to know that I am the artist of my life ! Happiness exists provided I really want.

Smelling the scent of my children makes me happy.

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 !!

The day when my son was born was a day full of happiness.

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

Happiness was when my adoptive brother and sister found their biological mother and also the 26th of August when I knew that I was cured of my cancer.

Yesterday evening, out to see the lights of Lyon, I found myself in the park of la Tête d'Or, on a path with lights and sounds so surreal…and relaxing ! A real moment of happiness after a day of hard work.

My little world makes me happy… I first of all have all my pets: Loulou, Fofinha, Nina, Cleo, Cesar, Micas they are my dogs who, I can assure you, are also very happy with 3400 feet of field and two little houses… My cats: Tigrao, Faisca, Princesa who have 4 little kittens Milady, Aramis, Dartanhan, Portos… My tortoises whose names are: César and Cléopâtre…. My birds in big cage…

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

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.

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

What makes me happy is being able to hold onto my freedom that I can use again and again.

It's when a simple look is enough.

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...

Hearing someone whistle will always be for me, synonymous with happiness. Thans Papy.

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

Wednesday afternoon, I visit my grand mother at the old folks home. Our walk in the park brings us closer. Seeing her smile and her joy makes me happy.

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

Just to hear some good news on the radio.

Seeing my son find his taste for life again makes me really happy !

What makes me happy is cracking my toes in bed instead of studying math during that time.

What makes me happy is getting up on Sundays to prepare breakfast and going back to my bedroom to find my man rolled up in the blanket, like a spring roll.

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 seeing my love, who lives in Toulouse, very soon.

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

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 the feeling of a smile!

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

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...

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 feeling so small in front of a stormy ocean, smelling the spray on my face : I simply feel content, and I realize the futility of all my little everyday worries.

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 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 seeing the popcorn head of my love waking up.

What makes me happy is the children's smile.

What makes me happy is finally being able to walk, because I was in a wheelchair.

What makes me happy is to love and be loved

Laughing and playing with my son and swimming in the ocean

The purchase of a house in the country made me happy. It gave me a goal.

What makes me happy is reading every little bit of joy in my children's eyes.

What makes me the most happy is the love of my future husband who, despite leukemia, helps me to overcome all in life.

What makes me happy are those lives I dream of and those dreams I live in.

feel like the Tibetan climbing the sacred mountain ! Happiness is not the end of the path, but happiness is the very path.

Most importantly a woman in my life and then my studies that have made me the person I am now.

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!!!

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

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

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

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.

What makes me happy is to see happy sports people.

What makes me happy is knowing that laughing works your abs!

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 makes me happy is the first kiss in a love affair…The first craziest moments…

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 making up with a colleague ! ( a little daily pleasure)

To be happy, I need calm and tranquillity, to be loved and love, sunshine and perfect happiness ( a little water, some fruit, my garden on my island) and peace in the world.

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

What makes me happy is to be on holiday.

What makes me happy is to eat braised fish with my fingers, in the shade of a tree, in the Ivory Coast, and to watch the sunrise on Buttes Chaumont Park.

What makes me happy is that I'm in good health, I'm active, I've got good morals, and I rarely get angry!

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

I was never as happy as I was two days ago when, opening the small package my love had nervously given to me, I discovered a pair of tiny shoes. I then understood that we were going to have a baby.

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.

What makes me happy ? The successful moments, the nice memories from my childhood.

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

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.

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.

Ce qui m'a rendue heureuse c'est d'avoir eu ma fille.

My happiness has already lasted for a long time. It renews itself every morning when I go to sample a cup of tea in one of the many Parisian cafés. It's a moment of pure joy, I let myself lapse into dreams in the ambiance of the cafes, and I can no longer do without it.

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