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!

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

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

What makes me happy is to have a cat.

What makes me happy is after washing my hands, to dry them in the hot air of the hand dryer. That marks a nice pause in my day.

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.

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.

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

What makes me happy is the day when my mother told me that she was happy to have a daughter like me.

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 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…

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.

What made me happy was to meet, totally by chance, the man who is now my husband. Thanks to fate, every day is a happy day.

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

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 to be back on the education road.

Getting married to someone I love. A nice trip with my family. Having a good job!

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

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 see the smile of people I like and the sunset. It's to hear the voices melody and children laughing. It's to smell flowers perfume and that of hot coffee. It's to feel under my fingers the softness of the skin and the grains of a fine sand beach…

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

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

What makes me happy is finally being able to walk, because I was in a wheelchair.

The idea of finding the love of my life makes me happy.

What makes me happy, even if it may look strange, it is when I drive to work in the morning.

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.

What make me happy are the moments when my son has a great time playing basketball, and flawlessly.

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.

What makes me happy is to have a beautiful diploma.

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

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...I was five years old, I wanted a little sister and I got one the day before my birthday. That was my best gift!

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 a cloudless sky.

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 !

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

What made me happy is when my boyfriend proposed to me, but also when the Americans demonstrated against war in Irak.

What makes me happy is listening to Metallica while petting a kitten.

What makes me happy is that I've found my ideal girl.

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

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

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

A kind of happiness that will never pass away is giving birth to a child, it is the most beautiful happiness to my mind.

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

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 being able to hold onto my freedom that I can use again and again.

What makes me happy is finding the right temperature of water in the shower right away… I hate cold showers…

It's when a simple look is enough.

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

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

What makes me happy is to be healthy.

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

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.

What makes me happy is to have my family around: my parents Fouzia and Ahmed, my sisters Souad and Malek, and my brothers Hamdi and Faouzi! May God bless them all!

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

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…

I'm happy when I'm part of the happiness of the people around me.

What makes me happy is having sponsored a little african, who comes from Burundi !

What makes me happiest is the fact that a child can be born from me and that one day I'll have little toes in my belly...

What makes me happy, a great privelege in my heart, when my little 4-year-old friend, Joey, takes my hand, taking this gesture of love from this child who moves me, but completely... I become gaga with...

What made me happy was to find out that I was pregnant with the child of the man of my life.

What makes me happy is to experiment with love.

To take the time to eat in a fine restaurant in Marseille and to savour the different meals…

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 !!!

To eat chips makes me happy

What made me happy: Over, my first boyfriend at school, which I'll never forget.

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 to see the others happy, my dearest, my friends, all the people I like.

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

Cultivating my friendships is what makes me happy.

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 the day when my mother told me that she was happy to have a daughter like me.

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