What makes me the happiest is to see the people I love happy.

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

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

It's snowing. I didn't drink today (well… yeah, a little). I'm trying to answer your question… happiness ? For me this intense, deep emotion that moves me : I feel that I'm going to go away… I won't tremble anymore… live, that's all. Happiness is knowing that you can go away, happiness is the smile of someone who doesn't know that I'm an alcoholic. Happiness… is thinking that I'm normal. Happiness : being right, loyal, and honest.

What makes me happy is to have the possibility to organize a great party with all the family where my brother could come with his children.

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.

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 getting a love letter meant for someone else... and getting a love letter really meant for me!

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.

What makes me happy is to be desired.

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 my sweetie smile while reading the Happython each day.

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 snakes and when my parents accepted to get one at home.

What makes me happy is finally being able to walk, because I was in a wheelchair.

What makes me happy is eating calamari beignets in the university restaurant.

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

What makes me happy is a genuine and simple friendship.

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.

I thought it was only possible to die from sadness. But one day I nearly died from happiness when the man I had always loved from afar, but only ever hoped to talk to, came and talked to me. It was the most beautiful day of my life.

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

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

One of the things I like to do is ….don't laugh at me ! It is to take off the shell of hard-boiled eggs. I adore that and it makes me happy.

What makes me happy is to be at the bottom of a mountain, a hill…watching the top and say to it: “see you soon”… To walk, sweat, breath, sometimes to suffer a little… and reach the top and think: “I've done it, thank you”. Just a challenge with nature. This is one of the most wonderful things in the world.

What makes me happy is thinking about what's going to make me happy later. When I get my car, a job I like, so that I can fulfill my passion and live with the woman I love and who loves me too. My happiness is living free.

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

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

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

What made me happy ? After loving lots of men, I fell in love with a woman and for that wonderful love, I gave up men and my former way of life. But it is worth while, I love and I am loved, peaceful and completely happy, that great affection…

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.

The day when my son was born was a day full of happiness.

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.

What makes me happy is the children's smile.

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

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!

The day I decided to take myself by the hand again (I was quite depressed) made it so that, during this time, life itself made me happy...

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 a state of mind and spiritual conscience.

What makes me happy is returning home, soaked, during a storm and hearing the rain beating against the windowpanes while I heat up tea!

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”.

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

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

What makes me happy is knowing that I am loved for who I am and that fills my heart with emotion to have tears of it in my eyes ! Then I understand that life is more than magic. Thanks to life.

lived my greatest happiness after having gone through a period of depression. I walk outside and I kneeled before the color of the starry sky and I told myself: God it's beautiful!

Lots of things make me happy : I bought an appartment, I slept with a girl and I stopped smoking !

What makes me happy is thinking that I've succeeded in getting out of many decades of abuse by myself. Others will succeed as well.

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

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

Life is at the base. I know well that there are ups and downs, it's like that, but there's the fun and that's what makes me happy.

Having a cat makes me happy.

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

What makes me happy is knowing that laughing works your abs!

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

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

What made me happy was when I played my first notes on the guitar a few months ago. So far I believed music was not for me.

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 that everybody is fine.

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 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 is having being able to create and form a happy couple with children.

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

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

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

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

Freedom makes me feel happy.

What makes me happy is telling myself that I am going to see the man of my dreams on my right during my classes.

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 !!!

Walking barefoot and feeling the sun under my feet.

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

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

Cultivating my friendships is what makes me happy.