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 !!!

The idea of finding the love of my life makes me happy.

I am learning to develop my ability to « not define » life, to melt into it rather than dominate it… and by so doing… I learn to love… and the more I love… the happier I am every day!

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 see the others happy, my dearest, my friends, all the people I like.

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!!! 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.

My most beautiful moment of happiness was when my love, Nuno Filipe, had prepared for me the most beautiful Valentine's day…. We went to the highest place in the region. Without me noticing anything, he took out two crystal glasses of champaign and a red roses bunch where there was a little note: with lots of love. And the best: a ring, a solitaire and the most important, lots of love…

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.

What makes me happy is finding the right temperature of water in the shower right away… I hate cold showers…

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

For a very long time I have wanted to play a musical instrument while avoiding the forbidding aspect of learning the solfeggio. By some wonderful chance, I saw a photo of a man. Playing the tampoura in the desert, the flash !

What makes me happy is to be with my friends with a friend called Sasi, and also Fiore and Dolores.

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

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

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

What makes me happy is to talk to people and to learn something from them.

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

One evening placed on his lower back, I thought about his little round body and I realized how happy I was to be a Daddy.

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 know that even far away, we can count on friends !

What makes me happy is a warm day with the wind and the blue sky of spring… A day like today.

Love!

My referee diploma made 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 makes me happy is finding the right temperature of water in the shower right away… I hate cold showers…

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 prepare a good meal when my son comes home.

What makes me happy ? To create.

What makes me happy? The sun, books, wine, when I have a good idea, a good conversation

What made me happy is an angel on the web who gave me a lot of happiness and love and I can't forget…

What makes me happy is to see happy sports people.

What makes me happy is that my scientific experiments are progressing.

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.

The idea of finding the love of my life makes me happy.

What makes me happy is seeing that my best friend is always there, even when things aren't going well.

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 life... the simplicity of people... their joy of living and the smiles that surround me... I want to be happy with them like with myself... I want to live in the moment without ever forgetting the past that made me grow up so well.

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 is seeing a smile erase the wrinkles on my husband's face.

What makes me most happy is when I see happy people. That's the reason why I try to make people happy. Sometimes a simple smile is enough…Fortunately there's a universal language that everybody can communicate with: the “language of the heart”.

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

Surprising a little sparrow while he's taking a bath in a puddle of water, that's what makes me really happy.

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 makes me the most happy is the love of my future husband who, despite leukemia, helps me to overcome all in life.

What makes me happy are my kids' smiles in the morning.

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.

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

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

What makes me happy is being at the foot of a mountain or a hill and looking at the summit telling it « Soon !, », then marching on to sweat, breathe, suffer a little, climb up to that summit and tell yourself : « I did it. Thank you ». Just a challenge between you and nature. That's one of the most beautiful things in the world.

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

Life is at the base. I know well that there are ups and downs, it's like that, but there's the fun and that's what makes me happy.

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 staying in contact with my old friends and making new friends.

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 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 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.

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

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 the happiness of others surrounding me.

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

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

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

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

What make me happy are the moments when my son has a great time playing basketball, and flawlessly.

What makes me happy is a cloudless sky.

What makes me happy is to skid and slide in front of the tobacco shop !

Happiness now is to feel I am starting afresh, even if I am alone, and to rely on the support of faithful friends and my granddaughter born 5 months ago, that is a dream and a revival in my life.

My success (academic with honors) makes me happy.

What makes me happy : Luigi who plays the guitar !

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.

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

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”.