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.

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 prepare a good meal when my son comes home.

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

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

I'm happy when I'm part of the happiness of the people around me.

What makes me happy is to take out all my toys.

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 to see his first name show up on my cell phone when at the same moment I'm thinking of him.

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.

I'm happy when my pupils smile in class and when they seem to be happy to be at school.

My children ‘s smiles make me happy.

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 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 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 my little 80-year-old mother, who is chock full of joyful projects : she's going to move into a new appartment.

My 14 years old son has a very worn stuffed bear and I hadn't been able to find one just like it to replace it. Today, I search online and I finally found it. I order four in advance and I feel like the happiest of all mothers.

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

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

What makes me happy is to have a beautiful diploma.

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

What makes me happy is my man's love.

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 girls.

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...

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 the children's smile.

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

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 the generosity of people who support Florence Aubenas and Hussein Hanoun. Finally solidarity doesn't end.

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.

What makes me happy is all that is beautiful, pure, frank and honest and that doesn't cost anything because these are the simplest things that are the most wonderful.

What makes me happy is holding one of the metro's double doors, while exchanging a smile, and vice-versa.

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, even if it may look strange, it is when I drive to work in the morning.

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

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 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? 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.

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

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

What makes me happy is to read Happython in Metro newspaper with my beloved chums every day.

What makes me happy is telling myself that there are places where everything is simple and less heavy than this place, and that can be here if I want it to be.

What makes me happy is doing a task that, I feel, fits with me and my personnality.

What makes me happy is having discovered Happython planet ! and sharing my happiness with others. I have hope for the best days.

Walking barefoot and feeling the sun under my feet.

The thing that makes me happiest is someone's love and people's respect and the world smiling at me.

To help people as much as I can makes me feel happy.

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

What makes me happiest is the love of my future husband who, despite leukemia, helps me to get through life.

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.

I am happy because I found my P50 motorcycle that I had lost.

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

What makes me happy is my calm spirit

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

What makes me happy is to dream and imagine things about battles and love.

What makes me happy is to be healthy.

What made me happy was to meet, totally by chance, the man who is now my husband. Thanks to fate, every day is a happy day.

Happiness now is to feel I am starting afresh, even if I am alone, and to rely on the support of faithful friends and my granddaughter born 5 months ago, that is a dream and a revival in my life.

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.

What makes me happy is to take out all my toys.

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

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

Lots of things make me happy : I bought an appartment, I slept with a girl and I stopped smoking !

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.

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

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 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.

What makes me happy is to get up in the morning and thank God for letting me sleep in peace.

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

What makes me happy is receiving a message that is proof of a pardon granted by a friend...maybe found again.

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

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

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 the sunset above the sea.