For a very long time I have wanted to play a musical instrument while avoiding the forbidding aspect of learning the solfeggio. By some wonderful chance, I saw a photo of a man. Playing the tampoura in the desert, the flash !

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

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

To see my baby's birth.

What makes me happy is thinking of the happy future waiting for me somewhere in the universe.

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

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.

I am getting divorced, my husband prefers men, my 14-year-old daughter is pregnant, I am in love with a 22- year-old man who left for Mozambique, I am jobless, I am walking on air, Life is beautiful, I am alive ! Cool, isn't it ?

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

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

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

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.

I'm happy when I travel !

Nothing makes me happier than to create something with my own hands, to prepare some tempting meal that we can all share together later, or to sew cushions myself. There is a magic in creating, making, concocting something with ones own hands. It is a proof that our hands are just an extension of our thoughts.

What makes me happy is seeing my girlfriend in the morning on the train tell me « until tonight, my love, » and then leave listening to Chuck Berry singing « Johnny B. Goode. »

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

Overall, my friends (boys or girls) are the ones who make me happy, because they're always there for me.

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!

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

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...

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

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

What makes me happy ? To create.

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.

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

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.

Up until now nothing that I have accomplished or created in my life is worth mentioning compared to that freedom I have acquired through the fact of doing nothing to accomplish, change or improve anything in the world, including myself

What makes me happy is to love and be loved

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

What makes me happy, it is in the morning when I wake up in my lover's arms and he kisses me lovingly

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

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 when I find myself in the mountains again, simply in nature.

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

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

What makes me happy ? The field of grapefruit in pink mornings.

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

What makes me happy are my kids' smiles in the morning.

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 parents together.

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

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 little things every day and realizing that those are what bring lots of happiness.

What makes me happy is telling myself that there are places where everything is simple and less heavy than this place, and that can be here if I want it to be.

What makes me happy is to eat a chocolate filled pastry behind my archi (tecture) teacher's back!!!

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 finding the right temperature of water in the shower right away… I hate cold showers…

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 to stop and enjoy a few quiet moments in my very busy life, so I can think of the distance covered, trials, moments of joy, and then I think that life is great!

What makes me happy? The sun, books, wine, when I have a good idea, a good conversation

What makes me happy ? A bird singing in the morning when I get up.

What makes my happy is that , currently, I only come across friendly people : the optician and her manager, the sales assistants of the sporting goods store ,of the hardware store and at the cultural goods (cds, dvds, books and video games) and craft arts stores , and the waiters and cashiers at the chinese restaurant).

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

What made me happy was having found my Papa who I haven't seen for twenty-five years.

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

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

To see my baby's birth.

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

The day when I had to defend my DES thesis I was really happy because of all the things I had endured achieving the project.

A woman makes me happy.

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 is living the life I've always wanted to live.

What makes me happy is the sunset above the sea.

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

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

What makes me happy is telling myself every morning, while reading the Happython, that I am not the only one who thinks like this.