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 have a special moment with my friends over an aperitif putting the world to rights.

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

Seeing my son find his taste for life again makes me really happy !

My job!

A wet spring evening simply makes me happy.

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 a cat.

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 !!!

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

Hugs!

What makes me happy is to be in Italy.

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

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

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

Love!

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

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 the shivers I get when I hear a song that moves me.

What makes me happy is sharing my newspaper with a neighbor on the metro who reads it over my shoulder.

What makes me happy is seeing the popcorn head of my love waking up.

What makes me happy is to be desired.

My referee diploma made me happy.

What makes me happy : family meetings, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren…

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

What made me happy is when I was offered a chimpanzee, which was my dearest dream.

My marriage has made me happy.

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

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.

What makes me happy is telling myself that, whatever happens, if we separate or find each other again, whatever time passes, no one will be able to erase our most cherished memories.

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

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 read Happython in Metro newspaper with my beloved chums every day.

What makes me happiest is laughing, with time, over things I've cried a lot about. That's how I finally tell myself that life is too beautiful but it's us who often see the world in black.

Surprising my brother and seeing the happiness on his face, that's enough to make me happy.

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.

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

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

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.

feel like the Tibetan climbing the sacred mountain ! Happiness is not the end of the path, but happiness is the very path.

Smelling the scent of my children makes me happy.

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: to know that even far away, we can count on friends !

Lots of things make me happy : I bought an appartment, I slept with a girl and I stopped smoking !

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.

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

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

To be happy, I need calm and tranquillity, to be loved and love, sunshine and perfect happiness ( a little water, some fruit, my garden on my island) and peace in the world.

What makes me happy is to be loved by the man of my life, a loving Canadian that fate put on my way.

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

What makes me happy is to share my newspaper with somebody next to me in the tube that reads over my shoulder!

Love!

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

My job!

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

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 being a great-great grandfather.

What makes me happy is seeing that the head of a busy bar can stop working for two minutes because he saw a blind man trying desperately to walk across a crosswalk and help him cross arm in arm… that really make me happy to witness scenes like that ! Long live solidarity between people of all horizons !!

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

What makes me happy is getting online at noon each day on one of the computers at med school with Celine and Arthur to leave messages on Happython !

What makes me happy is to have a beautiful diploma.

What makes me happy is to be with my friends with a friend called Sasi, and also Fiore and Dolores.

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.

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

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

Tomorrow's day is already making me 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 telling myself that there are places where everything is simple and less heavy than this place, and that can be here if I want it to be.

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

What makes me happy is getting a love letter meant for someone else... and getting a love letter really meant for me!

What makes me happy is that when I walk in the street, my steps are exactly as long as the bands on the crosswalk. I feel like I'm in harmony with my environment

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

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 breathing deep and seeing a smile appear on my face while I realize that it's good to live, something I had forgotten for a moment.