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

It's to seat down at Cais Do Sodré and look at my country.

What makes me happiest is all the little daily pleasures... Why search so hard, look what we have near

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

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.

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.

The idea of free time makes me happy. Let me explain: life is such that we are always doing something, stressed, running around, always going faster... So, to programme some free time, time to do nothing, is an idea that gives me a real sense of happiness.

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

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...

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.

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

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.

To feel the blending of warmth and cool in a summer evening, to drink a cool beer, to eat spiced olives, to hear my friends laugh, for me, that is happiness (in summer).

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

Happy to hear you smile...

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 : all the young people getting involved in the life of a new family…and those babies continuing life.

Yesterday it rained, I strolled along the ocean, a photo was taken, a kiss, a laugh, warmed up again in a cafe, shared a chocolate cake and cherry tea.

What makes me happy ? The successful moments, the nice memories from my childhood.

What makes me happy is seeing a smile erase the wrinkles on my husband's face.

What makes me happy is the idea that people would learn to love each other, without any feeling of racism. The world is everybody's…

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

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.

What makes me happy is that everybody is fine.

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.

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 !!!

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

What makes me happy is reading or writing to my loved ones. It's knowing that I am there for them and that they're there for me.

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 thinking through the best moments I've lived to determine which one is the best and thus reliving them.

What makes me happy is the enthusiasm I feel when I'm doing my work properly. I think that living for your vocation is the best way to be happy.

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

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

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

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

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

What makes me happy? The sun, books, wine, when I have a good idea, a good conversation

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.

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

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.

The idea of finding the love of my life makes me happy.

What makes me happy is getting a love letter meant for someone else... and getting a love letter really meant for me!

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

What makes me happy is seeing my girlfriend after two or three days when we haven't seen each other and she has a smile on her lips... That means we aren't going to confuse ourselves.

Just to hear some good news on the radio.

What makes me happy is to be on holiday.

The day when I had to defend my DES thesis I was really happy because of all the things I had endured achieving the project.

My faith in God makes me feel happy.

What makes me happy is the sunset above the sea.

I am learning to develop my ability to « not define » life, to melt into it rather than dominate it… and by so doing… I learn to love… and the more I love… the happier I am every day!

What makes me happy is to eat a chocolate filled pastry behind my archi (tecture) teacher's back!!!

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.

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

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.

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

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.

I am happy when I do well in my studies.

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 purest moment of happiness was my fiance's return to France after eight months spent in prison, in Turkey... All that because he had taken some papers! For now, it's my most beautiful moment.

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 is to know that I am the artist of my life ! Happiness exists provided I really want.

Laughing and playing with my son and swimming in the ocean

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 to please to my parents so that they are proud of me. Thank you Dad and Mum, I'm madly in love with you!!!

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 happiest is all the little daily pleasures... Why search so hard, look what we have near

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

Walking barefoot and feeling the sun under my feet.

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.

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 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 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.