What makes me happy is receiving a message that is proof of a pardon granted by a friend...maybe found again.

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.

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.

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 !!!

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...”

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.

The idea of free time makes me happy. Let me explain: life is such that we are always doing something, stressed, running around, always going faster... So, to programme some free time, time to do nothing, is an idea that gives me a real sense of happiness.

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

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

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 to go to the cinema with a girl who really appeals to me.

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

What makes me happy is seeing the popcorn head of my love waking up.

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

What makes me happy is to listen to Danièle's music, dance the tarentelle and tammurriata and sing with my friends (especially napolitean songs).

What makes me happy is snakes and when my parents accepted to get one at home.

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

What makes me happy is to experiment with love.

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

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 seeing middle aged couples still walking together hand in hand.

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

To know that there's at least one person on earth who loves me for who I am, who shares my sad and happy moments and who never gets fed up saying “I love you”.

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 made me happy, a waterfall.

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

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 makes me happy is to have a special moment with my friends over an aperitif putting the world to rights.

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

What makes me happy is the shoo-shoobidoos, the waboo waboos and all the rest.

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

Happiness for me is to get miraculously cured of my disease.

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

What makes me happy is that my annuual medical appointment with my cardiologist was OK, and that even if unfortunately, she leaves the region,, she has found a cardiologist specialized, like her, in congenital hearth disease (my disease), who works in the region where I am move in, whom she knows well, and promised me that he is friendly.

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 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.

What makes me happy is to see that people can work together to overcome difficulty.

What makes me happy is to prepare a good meal when my son comes home.

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.

Each morning on my way to work, I read the newspaper and I hurry up to read the Happython. Often I find myself in what was said. Today, it's my turn. What makes me happy is going to bed early and waking up late when I don't have to work.

I'm in college prep, and what makes me happy is that my scores went from 2 over 20 to 4 over 20. I tell myself then, that now I see the fruits of my labors.

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

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 to be loved by the man of my life, a loving Canadian that fate put on my way.

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!!!

To see my baby's birth.

What makes me happy is the beauty of the sky.

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 !

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 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.

When he holds me in his arms, my head goes “pssshit.”

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 to be with my friends with a friend called Sasi, and also Fiore and Dolores.

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

What makes me happy ? My dog !

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

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.

Freedom makes me feel happy.

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 to have been able to get a job on my own.

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

What made me happy lately was to hear that I was pregnant after so many fruitless attempts.

Most importantly a woman in my life and then my studies that have made me the person I am now.

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

Yesterday it rained, I went for a walk with Deal along the ocean, we took photos of each other, we kissed each other, we laughed, we warmed up in a pub, and we shared a chocolate cake and a cherry tea.

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

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

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

I am happy as soon as I get home from the office in the evening and see my child's smile.

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 to be in Italy.

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.

I have just come out of a coma. Here it is : happiness is to be alive again.

What makes me happy is really knowing that one day I'll have enough power to spread love and happiness.