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 are those lives I dream of and those dreams I live in.

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

To see my rabbit smiles thanks to the web cam on the net (!).

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.

Having a cat makes me happy.

What makes me happy is to experiment with love.

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 happiest is the love of my future husband who, despite leukemia, helps me to get through life.

What makes me happy …To share a meal and an evening with friends.

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

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.

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

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

My success (academic with honors) makes me 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.

When something wonderful appears in my life. Coincidences, signs, dreams which become reality with the impression that it's life which is organizing everything, lucid dreams.

What makes me happy ? Scouting when I was young, then my commitment to a trade-union and a political party, my family – children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and hearing that my great-grandson Guillaume will soon be christened.

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!

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

Happiness was when my adoptive brother and sister found their biological mother and also the 26th of August when I knew that I was cured of my cancer.

What makes me happy is to be on holiday.

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 to see that people can work together to overcome difficulty.

What makes me happy is to take out all my toys.

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 to be loved by the man of my life, a loving Canadian that fate put on my way.

The idea of free time makes me happy. Let me explain: life is such that we are always doing something, stressed, running around, always going faster... So, to programme some free time, time to do nothing, is an idea that gives me a real sense of happiness.

Yesterday at work, I thought myself the black beast and eight girls offered me chocolate. I live in Japan, and, here, it's the women who offer chocolate to men. My day had started very badly, and finished very well…

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

What makes me happy is to be in Italy.

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.

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 seeing my love, who lives in Toulouse, very soon.

My faith in God makes me feel happy.

What makes me happy is to believe in life, to believe in me.

What makes me happy is living the life I've always wanted to live.

What made me happy, a waterfall.

What makes me happy is reading happython every morning in class. That puts me in a good mood for the rest of the day.

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.

What makes me happy is meeting passionate people. They always lend me an admiration like an imprint of their ardor, of their taste for life and love.

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

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

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…

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

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

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.

What makes me happy is the enthusiasm I feel when I'm doing my work properly. I think that living for your vocation is the best way to be happy.

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

What makes me happy is to live without any worries.

What made me happy was leaving for Bordeaux.

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 seeing my daughters happy and in good health

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.

To eat chips makes me happy

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

I'm happy when I travel !

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

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.

It's when a simple look is enough.

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 my calm spirit

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

Freedom makes me feel happy.

What makes me happy is finally being myself in my own eyes and in the eyes of my loved ones.

Smelling the scent of my children makes me 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 to think every morning when I read the happython, that I'm not the only one to think that way

A woman makes me happy.

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

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 !

I am happy when I can make a date with a very good-looking girl.

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.