What makes me happy is the sea. When I see it or when I think about it, I am really comfortable in my own being. Oh yes, it's boring but it's the ocean blue that makes me happy.

What makes me happy is to eat braised fish with my fingers, in the shade of a tree, in the Ivory Coast, and to watch the sunrise on Buttes Chaumont Park.

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”.

For me, it's the sea that makes me happy!!! When I see it or just even think about it I feel good deep inside. It might be quite trivial but the blue ocean makes me happy.

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 ?

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

What makes me happy is to have my family around: my parents Fouzia and Ahmed, my sisters Souad and Malek, and my brothers Hamdi and Faouzi! May God bless them all!

Yesterday it rained, I went for a walk with Deal along the ocean, we took photos of each other, we kissed each other, we laughed, we warmed up in a pub, and we shared a chocolate cake and a cherry tea.

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 is seeing her in the morning, brushing her teeth in her robe, her gaze far away. I look at her, and our eyes meet.

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

What makes me happy is finally getting to use the internet !

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

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

What makes me happy is seeing my bunny thanks to the webcam.

What makes me happy is to experiment with love.

My little world makes me happy… I first of all have all my pets: Loulou, Fofinha, Nina, Cleo, Cesar, Micas they are my dogs who, I can assure you, are also very happy with 3400 feet of field and two little houses… My cats: Tigrao, Faisca, Princesa who have 4 little kittens Milady, Aramis, Dartanhan, Portos… My tortoises whose names are: César and Cléopâtre…. My birds in big cage…

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 !!!

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

What makes me happy is that it's raining today instead of a day when the weather's nice.

What makes me happy is to be sitting outside a café with nothing to do but let my mind wander (daydream), sip my drink and watch people walk by.

What makes me happy is getting up on Sundays to prepare breakfast and going back to my bedroom to find my man rolled up in the blanket, like a spring roll.

What makes me happy is living the life I've always wanted to live.

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

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

What makes me happy is when my boyfriend tells me he loves me.

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

Laughing and playing with my son and swimming in the ocean

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 seeing my love, who lives in Toulouse, very soon.

Cultivating my friendships is what makes me happy.

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

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.

What makes me happy is the happiness of others surrounding me.

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

What makes me happy is to be in Italy.

For me, happiness is a content life as a couple, sharing intense moments with another person, who I'm anxious to find again...

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

My fall in the bus this afternoon because a good-looking boy gave me a smile and helped me to get up

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

The smile of a child after an X-ray treatment… A baby holding out his hand… All that makes 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 having sponsored a little african, who comes from Burundi !

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

What makes me happy is the shoo-shoobidoos, the waboo waboos and all the rest.

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

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

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 have a special moment with my friends over an aperitif putting the world to rights.

What makes me happy is when I find myself in the mountains again, simply in nature.

A wet spring evening simply makes me happy.

What makes me happy is getting up in the morning, stretching out on my sofa and letting the sun warms my bare feet through the window.

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

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, it is in the morning when I wake up in my lover's arms and he kisses me lovingly

The fact that I've met my soul mate makes me happy.

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

Well, what made me happy lately was the surprise to be invited by my friend in a smart restaurant very close by my home where I had wanted to go for a long time but I had not enough money!

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 : family meetings, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren…

What makes me happy is when the people in the metro don't look just at their feet but at each other, and smile.

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

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

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

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

What makes me happy is the day when my mother told me that she was happy to have a daughter like me.

Love!

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.

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 !

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

What makes me happy is life in general  Lots of good things happen to me, like my three boys...

This morning, while feeding my fish, the ingrates finally recognized me ! I was crazy with joy ! (laughs)