To take the time to eat in a fine restaurant in Marseille and to savour the different meals…

For you I am not merely a thing, my happiness is you, Pilou.

What makes me happy is to see animals.

What made me happy is when my boyfriend proposed to me, but also when the Americans demonstrated against war in Irak.

What makes me happy is seeing middle aged couples still walking together hand in hand.

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? 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 being able to hold onto my freedom that I can use again and again.

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

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

What makes me happy : family meetings, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren…

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 !!!

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

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

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 ?

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

What makes me happy is when my husband tells me “I love you more than my life!”

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 makes me happy is to be with a friend and with the kids.

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 to be desired.

What makes me happy is writing a message to Happython and knowing that one day, maybe, my testimony with help spread the virus of happiness.

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

Hello everyone, what made me happy this summer was just swimming in the lake with warm sunbeams... letting myself be carried softly away by small waves.I find that that's complete happiness.. it's peace, calm, joy, it's relaxing... it's being happy... and all of that accompanied by my dear husband xxx -ps: the heat is much easier to stand that way hmm...

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

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

What makes me happiest is the fact that a child can be born from me and that one day I'll have little toes in my belly...

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

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

I was never as happy as I was two days ago when, opening the small package my love had nervously given to me, I discovered a pair of tiny shoes. I then understood that we were going to have a baby.

Life and loving others makes me happy.

To travel to Europe to see my brother's son who was born the day before yesterday.

What makes me happy is really knowing that one day I'll have enough power to spread love and happiness.

What makes me happy is being at the foot of a mountain or a hill and looking at the summit telling it « Soon !, », then marching on to sweat, breathe, suffer a little, climb up to that summit and tell yourself : « I did it. Thank you ». Just a challenge between you and nature. That's one of the most beautiful things in the world.

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 middle aged couples still walking together hand in hand.

What makes me happy is leaving work on Friday afternoon and walking in Bordeaux for an hour savoring each minute of the beginning of my weekend !

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

Seeing my son find his taste for life again makes me really happy !

What makes me happy is girls.

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

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

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 to read every morning the Happython when I'm in class. It puts me in a good mood for all the day.

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

What makes my happy is that , currently, I only come across friendly people : the optician and her manager, the sales assistants of the sporting goods store ,of the hardware store and at the cultural goods (cds, dvds, books and video games) and craft arts stores , and the waiters and cashiers at the chinese restaurant).

What makes me happy is finding the right temperature of water in the shower right away… I hate cold showers…

feel like the Tibetan climbing the sacred mountain ! Happiness is not the end of the path, but happiness is the very path.

Wednesday afternoon, I visit my grand mother at the old folks home. Our walk in the park brings us closer. Seeing her smile and her joy makes me happy.

What makes me happy is to be pretty.

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

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

Ce qui m'a rendue heureuse c'est d'avoir eu ma fille.

What makes me happy is doing little things every day and realizing that those are what bring lots of happiness.

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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

When something wonderful appears in my life. Coincidences, signs, dreams which become reality with the impression that it's life which is organizing everything, lucid dreams.

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

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 the surge of love that invades my heart in the most numb of her lyrics…

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 telling myself every morning, while reading the Happython, that I am not the only one who thinks like this.

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 now is to see the people who think of me.

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

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.

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

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!