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.

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

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

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.

Breathing everyday and going with the flow of my dailyjourney enjoying a beautiful sunny day and if possible near the sea, the lake or a river.

What makes me happy, you see, is that I live fully in the present moment. I savor each minute with pure delicacy, that's all!

It's when a simple look is enough.

What makes me happy is to skid and slide in front of the tobacco shop !

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.

Tomorrow's day is already making me happy.

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

The happiest day of my live was when I left the hole I was hidden in for a month during the war in Rwanda. That day, the sun shone like it will no longer and the breeze was a caress that no man has ever given me. It was June 21, 1994 around 3 :00 p.m. I was 14.

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

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 have the giggles and when I laugh so much so that I have a stomachache… I feel so well after shading tears of laughter.

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...

Yesterday evening, out to see the lights of Lyon, I found myself in the park of la Tête d'Or, on a path with lights and sounds so surreal…and relaxing ! A real moment of happiness after a day of hard work.

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 ? My dog !

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

My children ‘s smiles make me happy.

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.

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

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...

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

What makes me happy is that I have found a bigger appartment that mine for the same price in the region where I am moving (a region where real estate is normally more expensive than in my region).

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.

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

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.

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

Giving birth to my two children made me happy.

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

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

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

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!

My 14 years old son has a very worn stuffed bear and I hadn't been able to find one just like it to replace it. Today, I search online and I finally found it. I order four in advance and I feel like the happiest of all mothers.

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.

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

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 made me happy was to make a break in my job in order not to work any longer, to decide to care about myself and now to give priority to my happiness.

Surprising a little sparrow while he's taking a bath in a puddle of water, that's what makes me really happy.

Up until now nothing that I have accomplished or created in my life is worth mentioning compared to that freedom I have acquired through the fact of doing nothing to accomplish, change or improve anything in the world, including myself

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

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

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 that, despite all the world's problems, there are at least 20318 happy people.

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.

What makes me happy is that I'm in good health, I'm active, I've got good morals, and I rarely get angry!

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 to have been able to get a job on my own.

Smelling the aroma of the pizza that's baking in my oven and thinking that I'm going treat myself !

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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 finally being myself in my own eyes and in the eyes of my loved ones.

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.

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

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 does make me happy is to watch the waves lapping on the fine sand

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.

For me, happiness is a content life as a couple, sharing intense moments with another person, who I'm anxious to find again...

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

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.

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

What makes me happy : walking with your eyes closed to feel the natural elements.

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

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.

What makes me most happy is when I see happy people. That's the reason why I try to make people happy. Sometimes a simple smile is enough…Fortunately there's a universal language that everybody can communicate with: the “language of the heart”.

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