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 to be sitting outside a café with nothing to do but let my mind wander (daydream), sip my drink and watch people walk by.

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 telling myself that I am going to see the man of my dreams on my right during my classes.

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.

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

I am happy when I travel around the world and get to know different possible ways of being happy.

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

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

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

What makes me happy, it is in the morning when I wake up in my lover's arms and he kisses me lovingly

What makes me happy are my kids' smiles in the morning.

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 have been able to get a job on my own.

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

My faith in God makes me feel happy.

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 to see happy sports people.

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

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.

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 ?

What makes me happy is finally getting to use the internet !

My five year old daughter told me : « Mommy, when you die, I will take all my treasures and I will give them to you when you return as a little baby. » That day, I felt a great surge of happiness

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

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

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

What makes me happy is my man's love.

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

To eat chips makes me happy

What makes me happy is that my annuual medical appointment with my cardiologist was OK, and that even if unfortunately, she leaves the region,, she has found a cardiologist specialized, like her, in congenital hearth disease (my disease), who works in the region where I am move in, whom she knows well, and promised me that he is friendly.

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.

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

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.

What makes me the happiest is to see the people I love 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.

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

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

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

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

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

What made me happy...I'm going to be very original: the birth of my son! When they put him on my stomach and I saw his face for the first time.

What makes me happy is being in an excellent mood and knowing how to share it with those around me.

What makes me happy is to eat a chocolate filled pastry behind my archi (tecture) teacher's back!!!

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.

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...

Having a cat makes me happy.

What makes me happy is really knowing that one day I'll have enough power to spread love and happiness.

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

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 to get up in the morning and think that I'm still there despite the past difficulties.

What makes me happy is that, though I am agoraphobic, I have made a great friend Pascale thanks to Internet, and I thank her for having friendly feelings for me.

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.

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

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

What makes me happy is to be sitting outside a café with nothing to do but let my mind wander (daydream), sip my drink and watch people walk by.

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

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

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.

I am happy when I travel around the world and get to know different possible ways of being happy.

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.

What makes me happy is all that is beautiful, pure, frank and honest and that doesn't cost anything because these are the simplest things that are the most wonderful.

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

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

What makes me happy is to create as many problems as possible.

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.

My first contact with her, my hands on her marvelous body, our first heartfelt words, our first steps along the Rhine to exchange, a little timidly, our visions of the world

Overall, my friends (boys or girls) are the ones who make me happy, because they're always there for me.

What makes me happy is a state of mind and spiritual conscience.

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

Laughing and playing with my son and swimming in the ocean

What makes me happy is freedom of thought and see how deep and creative and generous people can be when they are free.