What makes me happy? Well, I've been married to the man I adore for 36 and we are going to celebrate our 30th marriage anniversary next October 28. We have two sons, 22 and 29 years old, I am surrounded by love. Each second of my life I find a little happiness.

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...

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.

The idea of free time makes me happy. Let me explain: life is such that we are always doing something, stressed, running around, always going faster... So, to programme some free time, time to do nothing, is an idea that gives me a real sense of happiness.

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.

To feel loved by my surroundings and to be able to return that love makes me happy.

What makes me happy is the idea of not waking up early in the morning, not taking the bus to school, not working, because studying too much can kill, but I do it anyway, I'm still happy.

What makes me happy is to talk to people and to learn something from them.

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 : learn that Caro and Math are excepting a baby !

What makes me happy is staying in contact with my old friends and making new friends.

What made me happy was when I could walk again for the first time after my operation, when I had been paralyzed.

I no longer remember exactly when, But it was approximately in 1996 that I decided to “do something with Internet” It took me until April 1997 to get together the equipment, the connections and the supplies, but then bang, I saw photos of people far away appearing before my eyes, with immediacy of connection and of memory. Wow. For each question I had to do with actual things, ideas or sources of ideas, or how to do something, etc. etc. I could find the reply in a few minutes, and that's when I realised: One doesn't need to know how to reach one's goal before one has decided it - simply dream it and the answers to how you can succeed are on Internet – even if you wish to work towards an enlightened planetary civilisation…

What makes me happy is seeing a smile erase the wrinkles on my husband's face.

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

What makes me happy is the children's smile.

Love!

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

Happiness for me is to get miraculously cured of my disease.

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 to be with a friend and with the kids.

What makes me happy is seeing my sweetie smile while reading the Happython each day.

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

What makes me happy is doing a task that, I feel, fits with me and my personnality.

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

What makes me happy is when my neighbour kindly offers me « tourtisseaux » to thank me for a small favour.

What makes me happy? The sun, books, wine, when I have a good idea, a good conversation

It's when a simple look is enough.

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 wheever I go beach and watch the clouds.

The smile of a child after an X-ray treatment… A baby holding out his hand… All that makes me happy!!

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

What makes me happy is when there is music on the streets or in the metro. It gives me the impression that the quick steps of hurried people are in rhythm on the tempo, like an urban choreography !

Cultivating my friendships is what makes me happy.

All my travels.

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

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

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

What makes me happy are those lives I dream of and those dreams I live in.

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 leaving work on Friday afternoon and walking in Bordeaux for an hour savoring each minute of the beginning of my weekend !

I love to feel that boundaries don't exist here, smiles are the same everywhere, they can be exchanged in every language… that makes me happy.

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

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

The purchase of a house in the country made me happy. It gave me a goal.

What makes me happy is seeing my daughters happy and in good health

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 my calm spirit

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

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.

I met a person in the metro that made me smile…for no reason and that made me happy.

What makes me happy is making bread : to knead it, arrange the dough, cook it in my oven, and smell the aroma of fresh bread.

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!

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 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 chatting with my aunt on the internet and seeing her smile thanks to the webcam.

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

What makes me happy is to see that people can work together to overcome difficulty.

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 to have a cat.

What makes me happy is that it's raining today instead of a day when the weather's nice.

What makes me happy, today, is seeing a magnificent carpet of dead leaves at the foot of a tree and hearing a bird singing on the bare tree.

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

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.

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

Tomorrow's day is already making me happy.

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.

Laughing and playing with my son and swimming in the ocean

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 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.

What makes me happy is getting up on Sundays to prepare breakfast and going back to my bedroom to find my man rolled up in the blanket, like a spring roll.

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 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 are my kids' smiles in the morning.