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

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…

Overall, my friends (boys or girls) are the ones who make me happy, because they're always there for me.

What makes me happy is to see this little twig of a woman who is my mother smile and laugh, each time it's…

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

To feel the blending of warmth and cool in a summer evening, to drink a cool beer, to eat spiced olives, to hear my friends laugh, for me, that is happiness (in summer).

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

What made me happy was when I could walk again for the first time after my operation, when I had been paralyzed.

The day I decided to take myself by the hand again (I was quite depressed) made it so that, during this time, life itself made me happy...

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.

Love!

Up until now nothing that I have accomplished or created in my life is worth mentioning compared to that freedom I have acquired through the fact of doing nothing to accomplish, change or improve anything in the world, including myself

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 to read Happython in Metro newspaper with my beloved chums every day.

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...

What makes me happy is to be desired.

What makes me happy is to have left my parents' house.

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.

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 !!!

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.

Hugs!

What makes me happy is seeing all the different colors and ethnicities in the metro when I run errands in the morning…

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

What makes me happy is that I've found my ideal girl.

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.

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

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 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.

Happiness is in my nature, I always say that the sun is shining in my head. What makes me happy is loving life and every day there's always the same intensity inside me.

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

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

The day I decided to take myself by the hand again (I was quite depressed) made it so that, during this time, life itself made me happy...

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

What makes me happy is cracking my toes in bed instead of studying math during that time.

I am happy to have a large family and a girlfriend who shares my vision. I am happy to have a lucky star in my life professionally, financially, and for leisure, love and health.

To feel the blending of warmth and cool in a summer evening, to drink a cool beer, to eat spiced olives, to hear my friends laugh, for me, that is happiness (in summer).

What makes me happy is when I have the giggles and when I laugh so much so that I have a stomachache… I feel so well after shading tears of laughter.

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

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

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 made me happy was leaving for Bordeaux.

lived my greatest happiness after having gone through a period of depression. I walk outside and I kneeled before the color of the starry sky and I told myself: God it's beautiful!

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 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 !

A woman makes me happy.

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

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

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

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

Love!

I am most happy when people thank me for holding the door for them on the metro. I leave with a lively step to the RER A.

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 little everyday moments like for example : sitting on the edge of a lake and contemplating nature, horsebackriding in the woods, among other examples.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 is seeing the face of Kalé, my coworker, light up when I make him read the last Happython

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

I am happy when I am loved for what I am.

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

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

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).