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.

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!!!

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

What makes me happy is to see the others happy, my dearest, my friends, all the people I like.

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 writing a message to Happython and knowing that one day, maybe, my testimony with help spread the virus of happiness.

What makes me happy ? A bird singing in the morning when I get up.

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

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

When I left alone to experience giving up everything, I had the impression that I was happy.

One of the things I like to do is ….don't laugh at me ! It is to take off the shell of hard-boiled eggs. I adore that and it makes me happy.

What makes me happy? My new life with the man of my life hihihi !

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 is to see the smile of people I like and the sunset. It's to hear the voices melody and children laughing. It's to smell flowers perfume and that of hot coffee. It's to feel under my fingers the softness of the skin and the grains of a fine sand beach…

I am happy when I do well in my studies.

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

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

What makes me happy is spending time with my friends, going out with them, sharing my deepest thoughts with them and feeling their trust.

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.

What makes me happy is to be in Italy.

A wet spring evening simply makes me happy.

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

What made me happy was leaving for Bordeaux.

My success (academic with honors) makes me happy.

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.

The day I passed my driving license I was really happy because I had always thought I was useless

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 girls.

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

What makes me happy is to get up in the morning and think that I'm still there despite the past difficulties.

Giving birth to my two children made me happy.

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 seeing my sweetie smile while reading the Happython each day.

What made me happy was seeing whales in the distance spitting water, indifferent to the spectators sitting around a fire on this Zipolite beach.

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 : all the young people getting involved in the life of a new family…and those babies continuing life.

What makes me happy is a cloudless sky.

What makes me happy is to be with a friend and with the kids.

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

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.

So passionate, so tender, to hold me in your arms, kiss me gently and… tu make me fall on the bed ! You are so clumsy, my love, but how I love you, ooof ! I think about it in the metro, and I burst out laughing. I am happy.

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 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 my man's love.

I no longer remember exactly when, But it was approximately in 1996 that I decided to “do something with Internet” It took me until April 1997 to get together the equipment, the connections and the supplies, but then bang, I saw photos of people far away appearing before my eyes, with immediacy of connection and of memory. Wow. For each question I had to do with actual things, ideas or sources of ideas, or how to do something, etc. etc. I could find the reply in a few minutes, and that's when I realised: One doesn't need to know how to reach one's goal before one has decided it - simply dream it and the answers to how you can succeed are on Internet – even if you wish to work towards an enlightened planetary civilisation…

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 when my husband tells me “I love you more than my life!”

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.

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

What made me happy...I'm going to be very original: the birth of my son! When they put him on my stomach and I saw his face for the first time.

What makes me happy ? Sitting between others, while I feel a little wind on my face and watch the sunset.

I am happy when I travel around the world and get to know different possible ways of being happy.

What makes me happy is to create as many problems as possible.

A woman makes me happy.

What makes me happy, you see, is that I live fully in the present moment. I savor each minute with pure delicacy, that's all!

What makes me happy is listening to Metallica while petting a kitten.

What made me happy was having found my Papa who I haven't seen for twenty-five years.

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 !

Cultivating my friendships is what makes me happy.

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.

This is great !! The virus of happiness !! I'd like to give you my own definition of happiness... : “Happinees is like a butterfly. If you run after it, it will escape... But if you let it be, it will land softly on your shoulder...”

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.

Having a cat makes me happy.

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 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.

The simplest feeling of happiness is to know that someone somewhere loves you.

What makes me happy ? My dog !

What makes me happy is a state of mind and spiritual conscience.

Tomorrow's day is already making me happy.

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

What makes me happy is to have been able to get a job on my own.

What makes me happy is finally being myself in my own eyes and in the eyes of my loved ones.

I'm happy when I travel !

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.