What makes me happy is that my three and a half year old son gets angry if someone wants to smush an insect or when he asks us to be quiet to not scare a bird.

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.

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 !!!

What makes me happy is to be healthy.

What makes me happy : Luigi who plays the guitar !

What makes me happy is when my neighbour kindly offers me « tourtisseaux » to thank me for a small favour.

What makes me happy is that I have found a bigger appartment that mine for the same price in the region where I am moving (a region where real estate is normally more expensive than in my region).

What makes me happy is returning home, soaked, during a storm and hearing the rain beating against the windowpanes while I heat up tea!

What makes me happy is the happiness of others surrounding me.

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

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 seeing middle aged couples still walking together hand in hand.

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

What makes me happy is thinking through the best moments I've lived to determine which one is the best and thus reliving them.

What makes me happy is staying in contact with my old friends and making new friends.

What makes me happy is to have the possibility to organize a great party with all the family where my brother could come with his children.

What makes me happy is to think every morning when I read the happython, that I'm not the only one to think that way

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 having being able to create and form a happy couple with children.

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.

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

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 the shivers I get when I hear a song that moves me.

Love!

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

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

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

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

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

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 to eat a chocolate filled pastry behind my archi (tecture) teacher's back!!!

What makes me happy, it is to crochet fine mats and advise some people how to do crochet and knitting.

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

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 the ability I have to express myself in any languages, even if that is not the spoken language, but by gestures or feelings.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I'm a naturally happy person because I've learnt to see only the nice and positive side of what happens.

I am happy when I do well in my studies.

My little world makes me happy… I first of all have all my pets: Loulou, Fofinha, Nina, Cleo, Cesar, Micas they are my dogs who, I can assure you, are also very happy with 3400 feet of field and two little houses… My cats: Tigrao, Faisca, Princesa who have 4 little kittens Milady, Aramis, Dartanhan, Portos… My tortoises whose names are: César and Cléopâtre…. My birds in big cage…

What makes me happy is to be at the bottom of a mountain, a hill…watching the top and say to it: “see you soon”… To walk, sweat, breath, sometimes to suffer a little… and reach the top and think: “I've done it, thank you”. Just a challenge with nature. This is one of the most wonderful things in the world.

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

What makes me happy is that, though I am agoraphobic, I have made a great friend Pascale thanks to Internet, and I thank her for having friendly feelings for me.

What makes me happy is my man's love.

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

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

What makes me happy is knowing that I am loved for who I am and that fills my heart with emotion to have tears of it in my eyes ! Then I understand that life is more than magic. Thanks to life.

Walking barefoot and feeling the sun under my feet.

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!

I thought it was only possible to die from sadness. But one day I nearly died from happiness when the man I had always loved from afar, but only ever hoped to talk to, came and talked to me. It was the most beautiful day of my life.

What makes me happy is to be back on the education road.

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 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 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.

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

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

My first contact with her, my hands on her marvelous body, our first heartfelt words, our first steps along the Rhine to exchange, a little timidly, our visions of the world

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.

All my travels.

What makes me happy is knowing that laughing works your abs!

What fills me with joy is simply that a smile from me can make my companion happy and make him smile too.

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 : walking with your eyes closed to feel the natural elements.

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

What makes me happy is finally being able to walk, because I was in a wheelchair.

What makes me happy is telling myself that I am going to see the man of my dreams on my right during my classes.

A wet spring evening simply makes me happy.