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

For a very long time I have wanted to play a musical instrument while avoiding the forbidding aspect of learning the solfeggio. By some wonderful chance, I saw a photo of a man. Playing the tampoura in the desert, the flash !

All my travels.

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.

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

What fills me with joy is simply that a smile from me can make my companion happy and make him smile too.

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

My happiness is eating my favorite meal: pureed sausage.

Smelling the aroma of the pizza that's baking in my oven and thinking that I'm going treat myself !

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

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

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

What makes me happy is that my annuual medical appointment with my cardiologist was OK, and that even if unfortunately, she leaves the region,, she has found a cardiologist specialized, like her, in congenital hearth disease (my disease), who works in the region where I am move in, whom she knows well, and promised me that he is friendly.

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

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

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.

What makes me happy is sharing my newspaper with a neighbor on the metro who reads it over my shoulder.

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

I'm happy when I travel !

What makes me happy is a cloudless sky.

What makes me happy is getting back home after a long day at college, putting my hand in my mailbox and discovering a postcard from someone I love.

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

What makes me happy is making up with a colleague ! ( a little daily pleasure)

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

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

What does make me happy is to watch the waves lapping on the fine sand

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

What makes me happy is the generosity of people who support Florence Aubenas and Hussein Hanoun. Finally solidarity doesn't end.

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 to have left my parents' house.

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

My cousing Mathilde, 3 and a half years old, was skeptical when we told her, after school, that her little sister had been born during the day. But if you had seen her when she finally met Alice, she was ovewhelmed with joy !!!

What makes me happy is to skid and slide in front of the tobacco shop !

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

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 wheever I go beach and watch the clouds.

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 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.

Surprising a little sparrow while he's taking a bath in a puddle of water, that's what makes me really happy.

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 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.

A kind of happiness that will never pass away is giving birth to a child, it is the most beautiful happiness to my mind.

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 the children's smile.

Just to hear some good news on the radio.

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

What makes me happy is the sunset above the sea.

Just now (apart from my wonderful family) the position of France, Germany, Russia, China and of course Belgium on the crisis in Irak, which shows there is some hope left. It gives me an immense happiness.

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

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 to go to the cinema with a girl who really appeals to me.

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.

Oh… little everyday trifles make me happy … a smile, a hand in mine…a look, a laughing child…happiness is very relative…but we must know to appreciate the little things.

What makes me happy ? To create.

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

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

My referee diploma made me happy.

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

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 ? Scouting when I was young, then my commitment to a trade-union and a political party, my family – children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and hearing that my great-grandson Guillaume will soon be christened.

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…

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.

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

What makes me happy is running with people who are going to miss their train: not because I want to catch the train, but just for the pleasure of running and being out of breath...

My grandfather's eyes that sparkled whenever he saw me arrive. The wind that strokes my face, the sun that warms up the heart and finally, just feeling alive!

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 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 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.

To see my baby's birth.

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!

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