For me, what makes me happy is accomplishing the tasks I have to do... however small they are... the satisfaction of finished work...

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 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.

What makes me happy is my calm spirit

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

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

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

What makes me happy is to experiment with love.

What make me happy are the moments when my son has a great time playing basketball, and flawlessly.

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

What makes me happy is to prepare a good meal when my son comes home.

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 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.

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.

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

Hugs!

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

The fact that I've met my soul mate makes me happy.

What makes me happy is seeing all the different colors and ethnicities in the metro when I run errands in the morning…

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

What makes me happy is to have a special moment with my friends over an aperitif putting the world to rights.

What makes me happy is to dream and imagine things about battles and love.

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 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.

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

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 to think every morning when I read the happython, that I'm not the only one to think that way

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

What makes me happy at this moment is that I have got rid of everything in Paris, my job and a hard life, to retire and live in Tunisia at a wonderful man's side.

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

Laughing and playing with my son and swimming in the ocean

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

I'm happy every morning when my man snuggles up to me saying: “good morning, darling, I'm here next to you”. I shiver.

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

What makes me happy is a cloudless sky.

What makes me happy is cracking my toes in bed instead of studying math during that time.

What makes me happy is to have come study french, start to understand it and eat Korean meals.

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

What makes me happy is breathing deep and seeing a smile appear on my face while I realize that it's good to live, something I had forgotten for a moment.

What makes me feel really happy is to be free to act, speak and realise my dreams.

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

This morning, while feeding my fish, the ingrates finally recognized me ! I was crazy with joy ! (laughs)

The day I passed my driving license I was really happy because I had always thought I was useless

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.

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

What make me happy are the moments when my son has a great time playing basketball, and flawlessly.

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 !

What made me happy is that my best friend came with her boyfriend and offered me to go out to take my mind off things because I had just been chucked.

I'm against peoples' oppression and I want them to be free, so I am happy when there is justice on earth,…

As far as I'm concerned, what made me happy was to meet this great guy who I really love a lot.

What makes me happy is to be desired.

I am happy when I do well in my studies.

What makes me happy is the feeling of a smile!

What makes me happy ? To be a granny, nothing is more beautiful than to see your family grow larger and be able to play the doting mother again. It makes you feel young again.

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 the first kiss in a love affair…The first craziest moments…

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.

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

My success (academic with honors) makes me happy.

Just to hear some good news on the radio.

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

Hugs!

Having brought to light a vocation. My son was studying Sociology and Economic Sciences at the University of Jussieu. One summer I forced him to work in a hospital to earn some pocket money. He dropped his studies to study at the I.F.S.I. (Nurses Training School) Today, at 25 he is happy, his job is a true vocation. His patients are happy and me too, I'm happy

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

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

I found a job after a long laborious search and that made me happy.

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 that people read the little Happython phrases that I cut out of the newspaper and paste on the walls in my bathrooms. Even Charlotte, who is preschool, sometimes takes more than twenty minutes.