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.

Just to hear some good news on the radio.

What makes me happy is the generosity of people who support Florence Aubenas and Hussein Hanoun. Finally solidarity doesn't end.

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

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

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

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 !

What made me happy was to spend my birthday evening with my son and his girlfriend, and tomorrow it will be the same with my sister and her husband. Hurray for the family!

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

What makes me happy is to be pretty.

What makes me happy now is to see the people who think of me.

What makes me happy is to experiment with love.

A particular moment in the summer of 2002 really made me happy. My father and I went fishing to the little river going near my childhood's village, in rocky canyons. He fishes with the hand since he was a little boy and this year I was also successful when I got a fish with my hand. The atmosphere and this moment of complicity both made me reach heaven.

What makes me happy ? My dog !

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

What makes me happy is when in the dreams' fall when the breath of the day raises my eyelids, I'm aware that the moment when finally I'll be free is close. Every minute, every second that goes by is a step towards our reunion, my darling, my Night, my life.

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 …To share a meal and an evening with friends.

What makes me happy is listening to Metallica while petting a kitten.

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

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

Love!

What makes me the happiest is to see the people I love happy.

What makes me happy is that it's raining today instead of a day when the weather's nice.

Giving birth to my two children made me happy.

What makes me happy is to go to the cinema with a girl who really appeals to me.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

What makes me happy is to get up in the morning and thank God for letting me sleep in peace.

What makes me happy is falling in lovein the metro every morning ! Stranger from line 6, if you recognize yourself…

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

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).

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

My cousing Mathilde, 3 and a half years old, was skeptical when we told her, after school, that her little sister had been born during the day. But if you had seen her when she finally met Alice, she was ovewhelmed with joy !!!

My faith in God makes me feel happy.

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

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

What makes me happy is eating calamari beignets in the university restaurant.

For me, happiness is a content life as a couple, sharing intense moments with another person, who I'm anxious to find again...

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

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

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

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

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 to be healthy.

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 happiest is all the little daily pleasures... Why search so hard, look what we have near

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.

I am happy because I found my P50 motorcycle that I had lost.

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 when the supernatural gets revealed in my life. Coincidences, signs, dreams that come true with the impression that life organizes everything, lucid dreams.

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

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.

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?

What makes me happy is the children's smile.

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

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 does make me happy is to watch the waves lapping on the fine sand

What made me happy...I was five years old, I wanted a little sister and I got one the day before my birthday. That was my best gift!

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

What makes me happy!!! Well, I'm only 17 years old, so my happiness is far from complete, but I'll say that what makes me happy is seeing people smile.

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...

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.

What made me happy was to spend my birthday evening with my son and his girlfriend, and tomorrow it will be the same with my sister and her husband. Hurray for the family!

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 the popcorn head of my love waking up.

The thing that makes me happiest is someone's love and people's respect and the world smiling at me.

This is great !! The virus of happiness !! I'd like to give you my own definition of happiness... : “Happinees is like a butterfly. If you run after it, it will escape... But if you let it be, it will land softly on your shoulder...”