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

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 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.

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 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 to listen to Danièle's music, dance the tarentelle and tammurriata and sing with my friends (especially napolitean songs).

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.

What makes me happy is that everybody is fine.

I'm happy when I travel !

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

What makes me happy is seeing my daughters happy and in good health

What made me happy was to spend my birthday evening with my son and his girlfriend, and tomorrow it will be the same with my sister and her husband. Hurray for the family!

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

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.

To see my baby's birth.

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

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.

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

What makes me happy is to be loved by the man of my life, a loving Canadian that fate put on my way.

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

What makes me happy is to eat everyday with my friends, each bite is for me a breath of life.

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

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 the idea of not waking up early in the morning, not taking the bus to school, not working, because studying too much can kill, but I do it anyway, I'm still happy.

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 be happy, I need calm and tranquillity, to be loved and love, sunshine and perfect happiness ( a little water, some fruit, my garden on my island) and peace in the world.

What makes me happy is girls.

What makes me happy is reading every little bit of joy in my children's eyes.

What makes me happy, today, is seeing a magnificent carpet of dead leaves at the foot of a tree and hearing a bird singing on the bare tree.

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

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

What made me happy ? It is probably slight …I met a totally exceptional man on a chat one year and ten days ago (de visu).

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

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.

What makes me happy is that everybody is fine.

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 prepare a good meal when my son comes home.

The light and sparkles in children's eyes sometimes make me feel like crying with happiness.

What makes me happy is chatting with my aunt on the internet and seeing her smile thanks to the webcam.

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 when you resuscitate a baby and suddenly hear his first cry of life tearing the silence of the room.

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 seeing the popcorn head of my love waking up.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Surprising my brother and seeing the happiness on his face, that's enough to make me happy.

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 to see that people can work together to overcome difficulty.

What makes me happy is getting online at noon each day on one of the computers at med school with Celine and Arthur to leave messages on Happython !

What makes me happy is to stop and enjoy a few quiet moments in my very busy life, so I can think of the distance covered, trials, moments of joy, and then I think that life is great!

Life and loving others makes me happy.

Love!

What made me happy was rowing with my father one night with a full moon, at 4 in the morning, in the Parana delta in Argentina.

What makes me happy is snakes and when my parents accepted to get one at home.

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

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

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 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 seeing all the cherry trees blooming in Japan, and telling myself that nothing is more beautiful and nothing pleases us more than this langourous pink…

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 made me happy...I was five years old, I wanted a little sister and I got one the day before my birthday. That was my best gift!

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

My marriage has made me happy.

I found a job after a long laborious search and that made me happy.

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

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