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!

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 the ability I have to express myself in any languages, even if that is not the spoken language, but by gestures or feelings.

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 to go to the cinema with a girl who really appeals to me.

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

What makes me happy is seeing my bunny thanks to the webcam.

Most importantly a woman in my life and then my studies that have made me the person I am now.

What makes me happy is to be in Italy.

Smelling the scent of my children makes me happy.

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

Oh… little everyday trifles make me happy … a smile, a hand in mine…a look, a laughing child…happiness is very relative…but we must know to appreciate the little things.

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

What makes me happy is life... the simplicity of people... their joy of living and the smiles that surround me... I want to be happy with them like with myself... I want to live in the moment without ever forgetting the past that made me grow up so well.

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

What makes me happy is thinking of the happy future waiting for me somewhere in the universe.

What makes me happy : Luigi who plays the guitar !

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 !!

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

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

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 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 that I've found my ideal girl.

What makes me happy is making bread : to knead it, arrange the dough, cook it in my oven, and smell the aroma of fresh bread.

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

Laughing and playing with my son and swimming in the ocean

What makes me happy is that each and every day, I live…

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.

Happiness is when I see my mother again, for whom I'll always be the same kid (even if I'm not this kid anymore) and to see her face lighting up and smiling.

What makes me happy is to have a beautiful diploma.

What has made me happy for 30 years is to live with an exceptional woman who is my wife, my friend, my confidante and my mistress all at the same time.

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

Cultivating my friendships is what makes me happy.

What made me happy ? After loving lots of men, I fell in love with a woman and for that wonderful love, I gave up men and my former way of life. But it is worth while, I love and I am loved, peaceful and completely happy, that great affection…

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 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 is receiving a message that is proof of a pardon granted by a friend...maybe found again.

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

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

What makes me most happy is when I see happy people. That's the reason why I try to make people happy. Sometimes a simple smile is enough…Fortunately there's a universal language that everybody can communicate with: the “language of the heart”.

What makes me happy is seeing my bunny thanks to the webcam.

What makes me happy is life... the simplicity of people... their joy of living and the smiles that surround me... I want to be happy with them like with myself... I want to live in the moment without ever forgetting the past that made me grow up so well.

What makes me happy ? To be a granny, nothing is more beautiful than to see your family grow larger and be able to play the doting mother again. It makes you feel young again.

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

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

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

A wet spring evening simply makes me happy.

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

My little world makes me happy… I first of all have all my pets: Loulou, Fofinha, Nina, Cleo, Cesar, Micas they are my dogs who, I can assure you, are also very happy with 3400 feet of field and two little houses… My cats: Tigrao, Faisca, Princesa who have 4 little kittens Milady, Aramis, Dartanhan, Portos… My tortoises whose names are: César and Cléopâtre…. My birds in big cage…

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 getting back home after a long day at college, putting my hand in my mailbox and discovering a postcard from someone I love.

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

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

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

As far as I'm concerned, what made me happy was to meet this great guy who I really love a lot.

My job!

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 seeing all the different colors and ethnicities in the metro when I run errands in the morning…

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

What made me happy was when I could walk again for the first time after my operation, when I had been paralyzed.

What makes me happy is to get up in the morning and thank God for letting me sleep in peace.

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

Just to hear some good news on the radio.

To know that there's at least one person on earth who loves me for who I am, who shares my sad and happy moments and who never gets fed up saying “I love you”.

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

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.

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...

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

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).