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 a warm day with the wind and the blue sky of spring… A day like today.

I am getting divorced, my husband prefers men, my 14-year-old daughter is pregnant, I am in love with a 22- year-old man who left for Mozambique, I am jobless, I am walking on air, Life is beautiful, I am alive ! Cool, isn't it ?

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

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

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 !!!

Laughing and playing with my son and swimming in the ocean

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.

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 see his first name show up on my cell phone when at the same moment I'm thinking of him.

Giving birth to my two children made me happy.

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

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.

0n Saint Valentin's night I decided to make love with a 40-year-old man. I was his little princess, I desired him so much that I was afraid. I was trembling. He made love with me as none had ever done . On that night I saw the wolf : happy.

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

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

What makes me happy is the children'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.

A woman makes me happy.

What makes me happy ? To create.

So passionate, so tender, to hold me in your arms, kiss me gently and… tu make me fall on the bed ! You are so clumsy, my love, but how I love you, ooof ! I think about it in the metro, and I burst out laughing. I am happy.

My happiness is complete when I let the metro pass to keep kissing my love on the latform...telling myself that I'll take it maybe the next day or the day after that.

Smelling the scent of my children makes me happy.

What makes me happy is thinking through the best moments I've lived to determine which one is the best and thus reliving them.

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!

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

My most beautiful moment of happiness was when my love, Nuno Filipe, had prepared for me the most beautiful Valentine's day…. We went to the highest place in the region. Without me noticing anything, he took out two crystal glasses of champaign and a red roses bunch where there was a little note: with lots of love. And the best: a ring, a solitaire and the most important, lots of love…

For me, it's the sea that makes me happy!!! When I see it or just even think about it I feel good deep inside. It might be quite trivial but the blue ocean makes me happy.

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

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

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.

What makes me happy, hmm... The first is waking up and seeing sunbeams... the second is payday... the third is my last day at 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...

What makes me happy is seeing middle aged couples still walking together hand in hand.

What makes me happy is a cloudless sky.

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

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

What makes me happy is to have a cat.

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...

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

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

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

What makes me wild with happiness is to think that I get life ahead of me to make all my dreams come true, to meet ‘the' woman willing to offer me some kids, to see my babies grow, to make a contribution to tolerance for everyone, and mostly do my best not to wake up one day and think that I have made a mess of my life…

My wife makes me happy… She helped me to discover what real life is like!!!

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 makes me happy is to listen to Danièle's music, dance the tarentelle and tammurriata and sing with my friends (especially napolitean songs).

What made me happy was leaving for Bordeaux.

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

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

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

What makes me happy is spending time with my friends, going out with them, sharing my deepest thoughts with them and feeling their trust.

What makes me happy is learning that my parents are going to leave for a lover's weekend. After 23 years of marriage, isn't it still really cute?

What makes me happy!!! Well, I'm only 17 years old, so my happiness is far from complete, but I'll say that what makes me happy is seeing people smile.

I am happy when I do well in my studies.

What makes my happy is that , currently, I only come across friendly people : the optician and her manager, the sales assistants of the sporting goods store ,of the hardware store and at the cultural goods (cds, dvds, books and video games) and craft arts stores , and the waiters and cashiers at the chinese restaurant).

What makes me happy is the shivers I get when I hear a song that moves me.

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

What makes me happy is seeing my love, who lives in Toulouse, very soon.

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

Someone who is able to listen to you, to have a discussion with you. Also to be able to open your heart to someone who knows about human qualities.

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

The thing that makes me happiest is someone's love and people's respect and the world smiling at me.

What makes me happy is being at the foot of a mountain or a hill and looking at the summit telling it « Soon !, », then marching on to sweat, breathe, suffer a little, climb up to that summit and tell yourself : « I did it. Thank you ». Just a challenge between you and nature. That's one of the most beautiful things in the world.

What makes me happy is to experiment with love.

What makes me happy is seeing my reflection in the eyes of my son.

What makes me happy is to stop and enjoy a few quiet moments in my very busy life, so I can think of the distance covered, trials, moments of joy, and then I think that life is great!

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

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

The day when my daughter Nouha was born, on July 4th, 2004 made me happy.

What makes me happy now is to see the people who think of me.

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 seeing a smile erase the wrinkles on my husband's face.

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