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.

Getting married to someone I love. A nice trip with my family. Having a good job!

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

To take the time to eat in a fine restaurant in Marseille and to savour the different meals…

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

To travel to Europe to see my brother's son who was born the day before yesterday.

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 all the cherry trees blooming in Japan, and telling myself that nothing is more beautiful and nothing pleases us more than this langourous pink…

I'm happy when I'm part of the happiness of the people around me.

Laughing and playing with my son and swimming in the ocean

What made me happy was to find out that I was pregnant with the child of the man of my life.

What makes me happy? My new life with the man of my life hihihi !

After going on holidays alone, I come back home and I find my dog. It 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 the surge of love that invades my heart in the most numb of her lyrics…

What makes me happy is to be sitting outside a café with nothing to do but let my mind wander (daydream), sip my drink and watch people walk by.

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.

My relationship makes me very happy. I really have the impression that I create that every day. What allowed me to live this relationship, was when I started to respect myself and to listen to myself. Of course the other person senses that and naturally comes to you without effort. Afterwards the secret is not to tie the net, not to become a living prison, but on the contrary to open up the space with kind attention and love. Programme for a beautiful relationship: - Respect it – Listen to oneself (and the other too !) – Encourage light thoughts towards the other – Continue as if you were alone - Love the other person tenderly - Have fun together.

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...

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

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.

Walking barefoot and feeling the sun under my feet.

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 being able to hold onto my freedom that I can use again and again.

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

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 seeing my sweetie smile while reading the Happython each day.

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, a waterfall.

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

Smelling the scent of my children makes me happy.

What makes me happy is to be with a friend and with the kids.

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

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 when there is music on the streets or in the metro. It gives me the impression that the quick steps of hurried people are in rhythm on the tempo, like an urban choreography !

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.

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.

After going on holidays alone, I come back home and I find my dog. It makes me happy.

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? My new life with the man of my life hihihi !

A wet spring evening simply makes me happy.

Love!

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

I love to feel that boundaries don't exist here, smiles are the same everywhere, they can be exchanged in every language… that makes me happy.

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

I met a person in the metro that made me smile…for no reason and that made me happy.

The purest moment of happiness was my fiance's return to France after eight months spent in prison, in Turkey... All that because he had taken some papers! For now, it's my most beautiful moment.

The light and sparkles in children's eyes sometimes make me feel like crying with happiness.

To see my baby's birth.

Life and loving others makes me happy.

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? 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.

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

What has made me happy for 30 years is to live with an exceptional woman who is my wife, my friend, my confidante and my mistress all at the same time.

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

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.

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 really knowing that one day I'll have enough power to spread love and happiness.

What makes me happy is chatting with my aunt on the internet and seeing her smile thanks to the webcam.

What made me happy was seeing that people haven't yet forgotten Ingrid Bettancourt and her thousand-day-detention, November 19, 2004.

I found a job after a long laborious search and that made me happy.

To help people as much as I can makes me feel happy.

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

What makes me happy is seeing my reflection in the eyes of my son.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

What makes me happy is reading or writing to my loved ones. It's knowing that I am there for them and that they're there for me.

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 is seeing middle aged couples still walking together hand in hand.