What makes me happy is being with my family, spending time together, feeling all of their love, expressing how I feel, telling them, showing them.

A child's spinning top on the carpet. What a pleasure to approach it, having watched it from afar, the memories coming back of those exquisite moments where colours mingled and filled rainbow eyes. I lean over, touch the top and play with it and that simple pleasure warms my heart, it turns, turns, turns...

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

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.

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

To take the time to eat in a fine restaurant in Marseille and to savour the different meals…

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

Whenever I start to really like a person, I look at them straight in the eyes and I tell them that I love them (which is always true) : the glint that I see shine in their eyes, sometimes only for a fraction of a second, fills me with joy, and I am happy.

Hearing that a friend is expecting a baby makes me happy.

What makes me happy is to be healthy.

What makes me happy is seeing a smile erase the wrinkles on my husband's face.

Hugs!

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 a warm day with the wind and the blue sky of spring… A day like today.

What makes me happy is doing little things every day and realizing that those are what bring lots of happiness.

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 !

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 people who return my smiles and especially grannies, babies and good-looking

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

What makes me happy is being in an excellent mood and knowing how to share it with those around me.

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 learning that my parents are going to leave for a lover's weekend. After 23 years of marriage, isn't it still really cute?

What makes my happy is that , currently, I only come across friendly people : the optician and her manager, the sales assistants of the sporting goods store ,of the hardware store and at the cultural goods (cds, dvds, books and video games) and craft arts stores , and the waiters and cashiers at the chinese restaurant).

What makes me happy is seeing that the head of a busy bar can stop working for two minutes because he saw a blind man trying desperately to walk across a crosswalk and help him cross arm in arm… that really make me happy to witness scenes like that ! Long live solidarity between people of all horizons !!

To feel loved by my surroundings and to be able to return that love makes me happy.

Well, what made me happy lately was the surprise to be invited by my friend in a smart restaurant very close by my home where I had wanted to go for a long time but I had not enough money!

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 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.

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.

A particular moment in the summer of 2002 really made me happy. My father and I went fishing to the little river going near my childhood's village, in rocky canyons. He fishes with the hand since he was a little boy and this year I was also successful when I got a fish with my hand. The atmosphere and this moment of complicity both made me reach heaven.

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

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.

Breathing everyday and going with the flow of my dailyjourney enjoying a beautiful sunny day and if possible near the sea, the lake or a river.

What makes me happy is to see animals.

What makes me happy is being a great-great grandfather.

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.

Freedom makes me feel 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: to know that even far away, we can count on friends !

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

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

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

What makes me happy is seeing my girlfriend in the morning on the train tell me « until tonight, my love, » and then leave listening to Chuck Berry singing « Johnny B. Goode. »

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!

I am happy when I can make a date with a very good-looking girl.

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 love and be loved

What makes me happiest is laughing, with time, over things I've cried a lot about. That's how I finally tell myself that life is too beautiful but it's us who often see the world in black.

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

I adore my little kitten's caresses. That makes me happy.

A woman makes me happy.

What makes me happy is to live without any worries.

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

What makes me happy now is to see the people who think of me.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

An evening between friends, with a little to drink of course. One of them accompanies you back to your taxi, one of the ones with whom you share the same complicity and sensitivity. And on a « goodbye » you steal a kiss from him, instead of an ordinary « see ya soon ». A kiss that lasts for a little while, a kiss he returns. The kind of kiss that makes you smile each time you think about it again and makes you happy.

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

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

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.

All my travels.

What makes me happy is a cloudless sky.

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 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.

What makes me happy is having sponsored a little african, who comes from Burundi !

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