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.

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.

The happiest day of my live was when I left the hole I was hidden in for a month during the war in Rwanda. That day, the sun shone like it will no longer and the breeze was a caress that no man has ever given me. It was June 21, 1994 around 3 :00 p.m. I was 14.

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 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 !!

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

What makes me happy is seeing all the different colors and ethnicities in the metro when I run errands in the morning…

What makes me happiest is laughing, with time, over things I've cried a lot about. That's how I finally tell myself that life is too beautiful but it's us who often see the world in black.

What makes me happy is getting up in the morning, stretching out on my sofa and letting the sun warms my bare feet through the window.

What makes me happy is all that is beautiful, pure, frank and honest and that doesn't cost anything because these are the simplest things that are the most wonderful.

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, hmm... The first is waking up and seeing sunbeams... the second is payday... the third is my last day at work!

What made me happy: Over, my first boyfriend at school, which I'll never forget.

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.

Financial independance gives me a peace of heart and a certain serenity and the fact of being loved comforts me. Loving a man and receiving love makes me forget my worries and brings me pleasure.

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

Having a cat makes me happy.

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

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 have left my parents' house.

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

What makes me happy is that each and every day, I live…

What made me happy was to meet, totally by chance, the man who is now my husband. Thanks to fate, every day is a happy day.

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

I am happy when I can make a date with a very good-looking girl.

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 life in general  Lots of good things happen to me, like my three boys...

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

What makes me happy is the enthusiasm I feel when I'm doing my work properly. I think that living for your vocation is the best way to be happy.

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

Smelling the scent of my children makes me happy.

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.

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

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

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 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 : all the young people getting involved in the life of a new family…and those babies continuing life.

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

What makes me happy is when I find myself in the mountains again, simply in nature.

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

What makes me happy is to be on holiday.

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).

What makes me happy is thinking about what's going to make me happy later. When I get my car, a job I like, so that I can fulfill my passion and live with the woman I love and who loves me too. My happiness is living free.

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

What made me happy ? After loving lots of men, I fell in love with a woman and for that wonderful love, I gave up men and my former way of life. But it is worth while, I love and I am loved, peaceful and completely happy, that great affection…

What warms my heart and makes me happy is when nothing relents, seeing that my ideas come back stronger and more definite.

What makes me happy every day, it is to see black slaves'sons and daughters appointed to fairly important positions, in a country where there were schools for Whites and schools for Blacks, buses for Whites and buses for Blacks, just very few decades ago.

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

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 the day when my mother told me that she was happy to have a daughter like me.

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

What makes me happy is to have a cat.

What makes me happy is when you resuscitate a baby and suddenly hear his first cry of life tearing the silence of the room.

What makes me happy? Well, I've been married to the man I adore for 36 and we are going to celebrate our 30th marriage anniversary next October 28. We have two sons, 22 and 29 years old, I am surrounded by love. Each second of my life I find a little happiness.

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

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

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

What makes me happy is the shivers I get when I hear a song that moves me.

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…

What makes me happy is my man's love.

What makes me happy is wheever I go beach and watch the clouds.

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.

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

The day I passed my driving license I was really happy because I had always thought I was useless

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

I'm against peoples' oppression and I want them to be free, so I am happy when there is justice on earth,…

To see my rabbit smiles thanks to the web cam on the net (!).

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 !!

My children ‘s smiles make me happy.

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.

What makes me happy is sharing my newspaper with a neighbor on the metro who reads it over my shoulder.

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

What makes me happy is seeing my girlfriend after two or three days when we haven't seen each other and she has a smile on her lips... That means we aren't going to confuse ourselves.