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.

Just now (apart from my wonderful family) the position of France, Germany, Russia, China and of course Belgium on the crisis in Irak, which shows there is some hope left. It gives me an immense happiness.

Surprising a little sparrow while he's taking a bath in a puddle of water, that's what makes me really happy.

The purest moment of happiness was my fiance's return to France after eight months spent in prison, in Turkey... All that because he had taken some papers! For now, it's my most beautiful moment.

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

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!

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

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

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

What made me happy was my title of European champion of table tennins in all categories and my boyfriend.

I like eating spaghetti and curly lettuce with some surimi, I like cuddles and playing with my friends, it makes me happy.

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

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

What makes me happy : Luigi who plays the guitar !

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

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

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 warms my heart and makes me happy is when nothing relents, seeing that my ideas come back stronger and more definite.

What makes me happy is wheever I go beach and watch the clouds.

What made me happy is that my best friend came with her boyfriend and offered me to go out to take my mind off things because I had just been chucked.

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 !!!

Walking barefoot and feeling the sun under my feet.

What makes me happy is chatting with my aunt on the internet and seeing her smile thanks to the webcam.

What makes me happy is to be pretty.

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

What makes me happy is my man's love.

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

One of the things I like to do is ….don't laugh at me ! It is to take off the shell of hard-boiled eggs. I adore that and it makes me happy.

What makes me happy is getting up in the morning, stretching out on my sofa and letting the sun warms my bare feet through the window.

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

What makes me happy ? The field of grapefruit in pink mornings.

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

To feel the blending of warmth and cool in a summer evening, to drink a cool beer, to eat spiced olives, to hear my friends laugh, for me, that is happiness (in summer).

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

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 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 made me happy was seeing that people haven't yet forgotten Ingrid Bettancourt and her thousand-day-detention, November 19, 2004.

What makes me happy ? Sitting between others, while I feel a little wind on my face and watch the sunset.

My fall in the bus this afternoon because a good-looking boy gave me a smile and helped me to get up

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

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 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 doing little things every day and realizing that those are what bring lots of happiness.

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

All my travels.

For you I am not merely a thing, my happiness is you, Pilou.

The soccer team makes me happy.

A moment of happiness: the kiss from this little girl who thanked me for having cured her mommy. What made me happy yesterday was passing the evening with the man I love, dancing all night with him and showing him that his black skin and my white skin show at the same time both contrast and harmony.

Freedom makes me feel happy.

What made me happy, it is when I was elected Miss France 2003 on december 14, 2002 and my great pleasure was when I saw my mother after that. In her eyes I could see how proud and happy she was. I think it is the most beautiful present I can offer her.

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 thinking that I've succeeded in getting out of many decades of abuse by myself. Others will succeed as well.

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.

What makes me happy is when the people in the metro don't look just at their feet but at each other, and smile.

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

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

I have just come out of a coma. Here it is : happiness is to be alive again.

An evening between friends, with a little to drink of course. One of them accompanies you back to your taxi, one of the ones with whom you share the same complicity and sensitivity. And on a « goodbye » you steal a kiss from him, instead of an ordinary « see ya soon ». A kiss that lasts for a little while, a kiss he returns. The kind of kiss that makes you smile each time you think about it again and makes you happy.

Hearing that a friend is expecting a baby makes me happy.

What makes me happy is to skid and slide in front of the tobacco shop !

I found a job after a long laborious search and that made me happy.

What makes me happy is that I have found a bigger appartment that mine for the same price in the region where I am moving (a region where real estate is normally more expensive than in my region).

What makes me happy is to know that I am the artist of my life ! Happiness exists provided I really want.

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

What makes me happy is writing a message to Happython and knowing that one day, maybe, my testimony with help spread the virus of happiness.

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

Just to hear some good news on the radio.

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

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

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

I am most happy when people thank me for holding the door for them on the metro. I leave with a lively step to the RER A.

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

Life is at the base. I know well that there are ups and downs, it's like that, but there's the fun and that's what makes me happy.

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 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.