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

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

What makes me happy ? Scouting when I was young, then my commitment to a trade-union and a political party, my family – children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and hearing that my great-grandson Guillaume will soon be christened.

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.

My job!

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.

Yesterday at work, I thought myself the black beast and eight girls offered me chocolate. I live in Japan, and, here, it's the women who offer chocolate to men. My day had started very badly, and finished very well…

What makes me happy is the sunset above the sea.

What makes me happy is to get up in the morning and think that I'm still there despite the past difficulties.

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.

After going on holidays alone, I come back home and I find my dog. It makes me happy.

What makes me happy is to see this little twig of a woman who is my mother smile and laugh, each time it's…

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.

What makes me happy is that my scientific experiments are progressing.

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

What makes me happy is my calm spirit

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

What makes me happy is to be healthy.

What makes me happy is little everyday moments like for example : sitting on the edge of a lake and contemplating nature, horsebackriding in the woods, among other examples.

What makes me happy is having discovered Happython planet ! and sharing my happiness with others. I have hope for the best days.

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 when I find myself in the mountains again, simply in nature.

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

What makes me happy is the existence of people on this earth who ask me what makes me happy.

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

What makes me happy is receiving a message that is proof of a pardon granted by a friend...maybe found again.

Love!

What makes me happy is my calm spirit

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.

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

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

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.

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!!!

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

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

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.

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 to dream and imagine things about battles and love.

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.

My faith in God makes me feel happy.

What makes me happy is a cloudless sky.

What makes me happy ? My dog !

What makes me happy is when my boyfriend tells me he loves me.

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

What makes me happy is the generosity of people who support Florence Aubenas and Hussein Hanoun. Finally solidarity doesn't end.

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 made me happy was leaving for Bordeaux.

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

What makes me happy is reading happython every morning in class. That puts me in a good mood for the rest of the day.

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.

My relationship makes me very happy. I really have the impression that I create that every day. What allowed me to live this relationship, was when I started to respect myself and to listen to myself. Of course the other person senses that and naturally comes to you without effort. Afterwards the secret is not to tie the net, not to become a living prison, but on the contrary to open up the space with kind attention and love. Programme for a beautiful relationship: - Respect it – Listen to oneself (and the other too !) – Encourage light thoughts towards the other – Continue as if you were alone - Love the other person tenderly - Have fun together.

I am happy to have a large family and a girlfriend who shares my vision. I am happy to have a lucky star in my life professionally, financially, and for leisure, love and health.

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.

Each morning on my way to work, I read the newspaper and I hurry up to read the Happython. Often I find myself in what was said. Today, it's my turn. What makes me happy is going to bed early and waking up late when I don't have to work.

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...

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

What makes me happy is seeing all the cherry trees blooming in Japan, and telling myself that nothing is more beautiful and nothing pleases us more than this langourous pink…

What makes me happy is being a great-great grandfather.

I'm a naturally happy person because I've learnt to see only the nice and positive side of what happens.

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

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

My cousing Mathilde, 3 and a half years old, was skeptical when we told her, after school, that her little sister had been born during the day. But if you had seen her when she finally met Alice, she was ovewhelmed with joy !!!

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

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

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).

Having a cat makes me happy.

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

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.

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? The sun, books, wine, when I have a good idea, a good conversation

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.

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 to see that people can work together to overcome difficulty.

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.