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 !!!

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...

It's when a simple look is enough.

A moment of happiness: the kiss from this little girl who thanked me for having cured her mommy. What made me happy yesterday was passing the evening with the man I love, dancing all night with him and showing him that his black skin and my white skin show at the same time both contrast and harmony.

What makes me happy is being able to hold onto my freedom that I can use again and again.

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 made me happy lately was to hear that I was pregnant after so many fruitless attempts.

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

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 to get up in the morning and thank God for letting me sleep in peace.

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…

See and have the sun when I get up in the morning!

What makes me happy is to believe in life, to believe in me.

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

What makes me happy is to share my newspaper with somebody next to me in the tube that reads over my shoulder!

Most importantly a woman in my life and then my studies that have made me the person I am now.

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

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

What makes me happy is the surge of love that invades my heart in the most numb of her lyrics…

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

Giving birth to my two children made me happy.

An evening between friends, with a little to drink of course. One of them accompanies you back to your taxi, one of the ones with whom you share the same complicity and sensitivity. And on a « goodbye » you steal a kiss from him, instead of an ordinary « see ya soon ». A kiss that lasts for a little while, a kiss he returns. The kind of kiss that makes you smile each time you think about it again and makes you happy.

What made me happy : learn that Caro and Math are excepting a baby !

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.

Hearing someone whistle will always be for me, synonymous with happiness. Thans Papy.

What makes me happy is a warm day with the wind and the blue sky of spring… A day like today.

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

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

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.

What makes me happy is when in the dreams' fall when the breath of the day raises my eyelids, I'm aware that the moment when finally I'll be free is close. Every minute, every second that goes by is a step towards our reunion, my darling, my Night, my life.

What made me happy was my title of European champion of table tennins in all categories and my boyfriend.

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

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 am happy when I do well in my studies.

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

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

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”.

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

My five year old daughter told me : « Mommy, when you die, I will take all my treasures and I will give them to you when you return as a little baby. » That day, I felt a great surge of happiness

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

What makes me happy is after washing my hands, to dry them in the hot air of the hand dryer. That marks a nice pause in my day.

What makes me happy is to be on holiday.

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

Financial independance gives me a peace of heart and a certain serenity and the fact of being loved comforts me. Loving a man and receiving love makes me forget my worries and brings me pleasure.

My happiness is complete when I let the metro pass to keep kissing my love on the latform...telling myself that I'll take it maybe the next day or the day after that.

What warms my heart and makes me happy is when nothing relents, seeing that my ideas come back stronger and more definite.

What makes me happy is the shivers I get when I hear a song that moves me.

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).

What makes me happy is seeing my love, who lives in Toulouse, very soon.

What makes me happy is to see animals.

What makes me happy is to think every morning when I read the happython, that I'm not the only one to think that way

What made me happy: Over, my first boyfriend at school, which I'll never forget.

My most beautiful moment of happiness was when my love, Nuno Filipe, had prepared for me the most beautiful Valentine's day…. We went to the highest place in the region. Without me noticing anything, he took out two crystal glasses of champaign and a red roses bunch where there was a little note: with lots of love. And the best: a ring, a solitaire and the most important, lots of love…

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 are my kids' smiles in the morning.

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

What makes me happy is falling in lovein the metro every morning ! Stranger from line 6, if you recognize yourself…

What makes me happy is that each and every day, I live…

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

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

Classic happy moment, but true : waking up beside your love… a moment of pure tenderness… you wake from one dream to plunge into another…

All my travels.

I am happy as soon as I get home from the office in the evening and see my child's smile.

What makes me happy is meeting passionate people. They always lend me an admiration like an imprint of their ardor, of their taste for life and love.

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

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

What made me happy lately was to hear that I was pregnant after so many fruitless attempts.

A wet spring evening simply makes me happy.

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!

What makes me happy is to go to the cinema with a girl who really appeals to me.

Seeing my son find his taste for life again makes me really 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 when my husband tells me “I love you more than my life!”

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