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

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 !!!

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 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 that, despite all the world's problems, there are at least 20318 happy people.

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.

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.

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…

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

What warms my heart and makes me happy is when nothing relents, seeing that my ideas come back stronger and more definite.

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 : family meetings, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren…

As far as I'm concerned, what made me happy was to meet this great guy who I really love a lot.

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 to have a beautiful diploma.

What made me happy was when I played my first notes on the guitar a few months ago. So far I believed music was not for me.

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

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.

What makes me happy? Well, I've been married to the man I adore for 36 and we are going to celebrate our 30th marriage anniversary next October 28. We have two sons, 22 and 29 years old, I am surrounded by love. Each second of my life I find a little happiness.

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

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

All my travels.

What made me happy was to make a break in my job in order not to work any longer, to decide to care about myself and now to give priority to my happiness.

What makes me happy is being able to hold onto my freedom that I can use again and again.

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

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 makes me happy is knowing that laughing works your abs!

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

Giving birth to my two children made me happy.

What made me happy is when I was offered a chimpanzee, which was my dearest dream.

I am getting divorced, my husband prefers men, my 14-year-old daughter is pregnant, I am in love with a 22- year-old man who left for Mozambique, I am jobless, I am walking on air, Life is beautiful, I am alive ! Cool, isn't it ?

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.

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

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

When something wonderful appears in my life. Coincidences, signs, dreams which become reality with the impression that it's life which is organizing everything, lucid dreams.

A moment of happiness: the kiss from this little girl who thanked me for having cured her mommy. What made me happy yesterday was passing the evening with the man I love, dancing all night with him and showing him that his black skin and my white skin show at the same time both contrast and harmony.

Yesterday it rained, I strolled along the ocean, a photo was taken, a kiss, a laugh, warmed up again in a cafe, shared a chocolate cake and cherry tea.

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

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

What makes me happy is to believe in life, to believe in me.

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 !!!

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…

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 makes me happy is the sea. When I see it or when I think about it, I am really comfortable in my own being. Oh yes, it's boring but it's the ocean blue that makes me happy.

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

What makes me happy is girls.

What makes me happy is living the life I've always wanted to live.

My children ‘s smiles make me happy.

Happy to hear you smile...

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

What makes me happy is to know that I am the artist of my life ! Happiness exists provided I really want.

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

For you I am not merely a thing, my happiness is you, Pilou.

My faith in God makes me feel happy.

What makes me happy is the beauty of the sky.

What made me happy was seeing that people haven't yet forgotten Ingrid Bettancourt and her thousand-day-detention, November 19, 2004.

It's when a simple look is enough.

My five year old daughter told me : « Mommy, when you die, I will take all my treasures and I will give them to you when you return as a little baby. » That day, I felt a great surge of happiness

The soccer team makes me happy.

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 the day when my mother told me that she was happy to have a daughter like me.

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

My job!

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.

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!

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 the shoo-shoobidoos, the waboo waboos and all the rest.