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

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.

Cultivating my friendships is what makes me happy.

What makes me happy is holding one of the metro's double doors, while exchanging a smile, and vice-versa.

What makes me happy is to be with a friend and with the kids.

Having a cat makes me happy.

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

What makes me happy is the children's smile.

Classic happy moment, but true : waking up beside your love… a moment of pure tenderness… you wake from one dream to plunge into another…

What makes me happy is the idea that people would learn to love each other, without any feeling of racism. The world is everybody's…

What makes me happy is telling myself that I am going to see the man of my dreams on my right during my classes.

What makes me happy is to have been able to get a good education « educazione » !

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

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

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

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…

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.

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

What makes me happy is people who return my smiles and especially grannies, babies and good-looking

What does make me happy is to watch the waves lapping on the fine sand

The soccer team makes me happy.

I'm happy when my pupils smile in class and when they seem to be happy to be at school.

My job!

What makes me happy is the sunset above the sea.

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 happiest is all the little daily pleasures... Why search so hard, look what we have near

All my travels.

What makes me happy is leaving work on Friday afternoon and walking in Bordeaux for an hour savoring each minute of the beginning of my weekend !

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.

My happiness is eating my favorite meal: pureed sausage.

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.

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.

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

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!!!

This is great !! The virus of happiness !! I'd like to give you my own definition of happiness... : “Happinees is like a butterfly. If you run after it, it will escape... But if you let it be, it will land softly on your shoulder...”

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

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

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

Smelling the scent of my children makes me happy.

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

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

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

What makes me happy is to be with a friend and with the kids.

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

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

What makes me happy is life in general  Lots of good things happen to me, like my three boys...

What makes me happy is seeing middle aged couples still walking together hand in hand.

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 when I find myself in the mountains again, simply in nature.

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

Classic happy moment, but true : waking up beside your love… a moment of pure tenderness… you wake from one dream to plunge into another…

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

What makes me happy is being with my family, spending time together, feeling all of their love, expressing how I feel, telling them, showing them.

What makes me happy, hmm... The first is waking up and seeing sunbeams... the second is payday... the third is my last day at work!

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 to talk to people and to learn something from them.

Yesterday it rained, I strolled along the ocean, a photo was taken, a kiss, a laugh, warmed up again in a cafe, shared a chocolate cake and cherry tea.

What makes me happy is that, despite all the world's problems, there are at least 20318 happy people.

What makes me happy is to be back on the education road.

The fact that I've met my soul mate makes me happy.

What makes me happy ? A bird singing in the morning when I get up.

What makes me happy is to see this little twig of a woman who is my mother smile and laugh, each time it's…

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

My happiness has already lasted for a long time. It renews itself every morning when I go to sample a cup of tea in one of the many Parisian cafés. It's a moment of pure joy, I let myself lapse into dreams in the ambiance of the cafes, and I can no longer do without it.

I'm happy when I travel !

The day when my son was born was a day full of happiness.

What makes me happy is seeing all the different colors and ethnicities in the metro when I run errands in the morning…

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

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 every day, it is to see black slaves'sons and daughters appointed to fairly important positions, in a country where there were schools for Whites and schools for Blacks, buses for Whites and buses for Blacks, just very few decades ago.