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 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.

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

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 made me happy was seeing whales in the distance spitting water, indifferent to the spectators sitting around a fire on this Zipolite beach.

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

What makes me happy is that everybody is fine.

What makes me happy is my man's love.

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 ?

It's my children that make me happy : my son Samuel, who is 1, and my daughter Mélissa-Jade, who is 14, they are the most precious things I have on Earth.

What makes me happy is to be pretty.

What makes me happy is the sunset above the sea.

What makes me happy is nature. Walking in the grass or on a beach, lying in fields, watching the sunset, picking wild leeks to make an omelette with them.

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

I'm happy when I travel !

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 are my kids' smiles in the morning.

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.

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

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

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 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 my little 80-year-old mother, who is chock full of joyful projects : she's going to move into a new appartment.

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).

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 really happy? The first time my son smiled directly at me.

What made me happy is an angel on the web who gave me a lot of happiness and love and I can't forget…

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

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, 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 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.

Smelling the scent of my children makes me happy.

What made me happy Tuesday was seeing my cashier at the supermarket.

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

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 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...

What makes me happy is to create as many problems as possible.

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 eating my favorite meal: pureed sausage.

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

What makes me happy: to know that even far away, we can count on friends !

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 to be with a friend and with the kids.

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

Love!

What makes me happy is people who return my smiles and especially grannies, babies and good-looking

What makes me happy is to have been able to get a job on my own.

What makes me happy is holding one of the metro's double doors, while exchanging a smile, and vice-versa.

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 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 being a great-great grandfather.

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

What makes me happy is the ability I have to express myself in any languages, even if that is not the spoken language, but by gestures or feelings.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

What makes me happy is the children's smile.

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

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

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

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

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 has made me happy for 30 years is to live with an exceptional woman who is my wife, my friend, my confidante and my mistress all at the same time.

What makes me happy is seeing the popcorn head of my love waking up.

One evening placed on his lower back, I thought about his little round body and I realized how happy I was to be a Daddy.

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

What makes me happy is to see the others happy, my dearest, my friends, all the people I like.

What makes me happy : Luigi who brought me a chocolate egg, only for me !

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

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.