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.

What makes me happy is finally being myself in my own eyes and in the eyes of my loved ones.

What makes me happy is a state of mind and spiritual conscience.

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…

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 living the life I've always wanted to live.

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.

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 to get up in the morning and thank God for letting me sleep in peace.

To be happy, I need calm and tranquillity, to be loved and love, sunshine and perfect happiness ( a little water, some fruit, my garden on my island) and peace in the world.

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.

A kind of happiness that will never pass away is giving birth to a child, it is the most beautiful happiness to my mind.

What makes me happy is cracking my toes in bed instead of studying math during that time.

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

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

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.

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 !!!

So passionate, so tender, to hold me in your arms, kiss me gently and… tu make me fall on the bed ! You are so clumsy, my love, but how I love you, ooof ! I think about it in the metro, and I burst out laughing. I am happy.

What makes me happy is to be on holiday.

What makes me happy : Luigi who brought me a chocolate egg, only for me !

Yesterday at work, I thought myself the black beast and eight girls offered me chocolate. I live in Japan, and, here, it's the women who offer chocolate to men. My day had started very badly, and finished very well…

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

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

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

What made me happy Tuesday was seeing my cashier at the supermarket.

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.

Happiness is when I see my mother again, for whom I'll always be the same kid (even if I'm not this kid anymore) and to see her face lighting up and smiling.

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.

What makes me happy is reading happython every morning in class. That puts me in a good mood for the rest of the day.

Cultivating my friendships is what makes me happy.

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

The smile of a child after an X-ray treatment… A baby holding out his hand… All that 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 !

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 holding one of the metro's double doors, while exchanging a smile, and vice-versa.

I'm happy when I travel !

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 made me happy was seeing whales in the distance spitting water, indifferent to the spectators sitting around a fire on this Zipolite beach.

What makes me happy is telling myself that, whatever happens, if we separate or find each other again, whatever time passes, no one will be able to erase our most cherished memories.

What makes me happy is getting a love letter meant for someone else... and getting a love letter really meant for me!

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

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

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.

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 to create as many problems as possible.

What makes me happy, even if it may look strange, it is when I drive to work in the morning.

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.

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

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

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

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

What makes me happy is nature. Walking in the grass or on a beach, lying in fields, watching the sunset, picking wild leeks to make an omelette with them.

What makes me happy is freedom of thought and see how deep and creative and generous people can be when they are free.

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

Smelling the aroma of the pizza that's baking in my oven and thinking that I'm going treat myself !

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.

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

To be happy, I need calm and tranquillity, to be loved and love, sunshine and perfect happiness ( a little water, some fruit, my garden on my island) and peace in the world.

What makes me happy is doing a task that, I feel, fits with me and my personnality.

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

Happy to hear you smile...

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

What makes me happy is the idea that people would learn to love each other, without any feeling of racism. The world is everybody's…

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

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

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

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

Life and loving others makes me happy.

What makes me happy ? My dog !

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

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

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