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 that I've found my ideal girl.

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 making bread : to knead it, arrange the dough, cook it in my oven, and smell the aroma of fresh bread.

What makes me happy is finally getting to use the internet !

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 to experiment with love.

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.

To feel loved by my surroundings and to be able to return that love makes me happy.

What makes me happy is finding the right temperature of water in the shower right away… I hate cold showers…

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…

What makes me happy, you see, is that I live fully in the present moment. I savor each minute with pure delicacy, that's all!

To feel the blending of warmth and cool in a summer evening, to drink a cool beer, to eat spiced olives, to hear my friends laugh, for me, that is happiness (in summer).

Giving birth to my two children made me happy.

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...

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

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 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.

Well, what made me happy lately was the surprise to be invited by my friend in a smart restaurant very close by my home where I had wanted to go for a long time but I had not enough money!

A woman makes me happy.

What makes me happy is receiving a message that is proof of a pardon granted by a friend...maybe found again.

What makes me happy …To share a meal and an evening with friends.

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

What makes me happy is a cloudless sky.

For you I am not merely a thing, my happiness is you, Pilou.

My wife makes me happy… She helped me to discover what real life is like!!!

What makes me happy is that people read the little Happython phrases that I cut out of the newspaper and paste on the walls in my bathrooms. Even Charlotte, who is preschool, sometimes takes more than twenty minutes.

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

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

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

See and have the sun when I get up in the morning!

What makes me happy is that when I walk in the street, my steps are exactly as long as the bands on the crosswalk. I feel like I'm in harmony with my environment

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 is that my best friend came with her boyfriend and offered me to go out to take my mind off things because I had just been chucked.

My happiness is eating my favorite meal: pureed sausage.

What makes me happy at this moment is that I have got rid of everything in Paris, my job and a hard life, to retire and live in Tunisia at a wonderful man's side.

What makes me happy is seeing middle aged couples still walking together hand in hand.

What makes me happy is seeing that my best friend is always there, even when things aren't going well.

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 seeing my best friend again after almost two years apart.

What makes me happy is that, despite all the world's problems, there are at least 20318 happy people.

What makes me happy is being with my family, spending time together, feeling all of their love, expressing how I feel, telling them, showing them.

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

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

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

Yesterday it rained, I strolled along the ocean, a photo was taken, a kiss, a laugh, warmed up again in a cafe, shared a chocolate cake and cherry tea.

What makes me happy is the shoo-shoobidoos, the waboo waboos and all the rest.

Each morning on my way to work, I read the newspaper and I hurry up to read the Happython. Often I find myself in what was said. Today, it's my turn. What makes me happy is going to bed early and waking up late when I don't have to work.

What makes me happy is that my annuual medical appointment with my cardiologist was OK, and that even if unfortunately, she leaves the region,, she has found a cardiologist specialized, like her, in congenital hearth disease (my disease), who works in the region where I am move in, whom she knows well, and promised me that he is friendly.

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

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

My children ‘s smiles make me happy.

One evening placed on his lower back, I thought about his little round body and I realized how happy I was to be a Daddy.

What makes me happy is after washing my hands, to dry them in the hot air of the hand dryer. That marks a nice pause in my day.

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.

It's snowing. I didn't drink today (well… yeah, a little). I'm trying to answer your question… happiness ? For me this intense, deep emotion that moves me : I feel that I'm going to go away… I won't tremble anymore… live, that's all. Happiness is knowing that you can go away, happiness is the smile of someone who doesn't know that I'm an alcoholic. Happiness… is thinking that I'm normal. Happiness : being right, loyal, and honest.

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.

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

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

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

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.

My marriage has made 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 makes me happy, hmm... The first is waking up and seeing sunbeams... the second is payday... the third is my last day at work!

What makes me happy : walking with your eyes closed to feel the natural elements.

What makes me happy is when my boyfriend tells me he loves me.

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 to be on holiday.

What makes me happy is that I've found my ideal girl.

What makes me happy is writing a message to Happython and knowing that one day, maybe, my testimony with help spread the virus of happiness.

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

Classic happy moment, but true : waking up beside your love… a moment of pure tenderness… you wake from one dream to plunge into another…

What makes me happy is to take out all my toys.

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.