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.

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.

It's my children that make me happy : my son Samuel, who is 1, and my daughter Mélissa-Jade, who is 14, they are the most precious things I have on Earth.

Freedom makes me feel happy.

What makes me happy is spending time with my friends, going out with them, sharing my deepest thoughts with them and feeling their trust.

Up until now nothing that I have accomplished or created in my life is worth mentioning compared to that freedom I have acquired through the fact of doing nothing to accomplish, change or improve anything in the world, including myself

What makes me happy, it is to crochet fine mats and advise some people how to do crochet and knitting.

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 made me happy...I was five years old, I wanted a little sister and I got one the day before my birthday. That was my best gift!

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.

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 to see the others happy, my dearest, my friends, all the people I like.

What makes me happy is to eat everyday with my friends, each bite is for me a breath of life.

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.

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 freedom of thought and see how deep and creative and generous people can be when they are free.

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.

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

I'm a naturally happy person because I've learnt to see only the nice and positive side of what happens.

To help people as much as I can makes me feel 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.

Freedom makes me feel happy.

My 14 years old son has a very worn stuffed bear and I hadn't been able to find one just like it to replace it. Today, I search online and I finally found it. I order four in advance and I feel like the happiest of all mothers.

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

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...”

What makes me happy is my little 80-year-old mother, who is chock full of joyful projects : she's going to move into a new appartment.

What made me happy...I was five years old, I wanted a little sister and I got one the day before my birthday. That was my best gift!

What makes me happy is thinking about what's going to make me happy later. When I get my car, a job I like, so that I can fulfill my passion and live with the woman I love and who loves me too. My happiness is living free.

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

My children ‘s smiles make me happy.

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 is really knowing that one day I'll have enough power to spread love and happiness.

What makes me happy is to get up in the morning and think that I'm still there despite the past difficulties.

Life and loving others makes me happy.

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

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 now is to feel I am starting afresh, even if I am alone, and to rely on the support of faithful friends and my granddaughter born 5 months ago, that is a dream and a revival in my life.

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 getting up on Sundays to prepare breakfast and going back to my bedroom to find my man rolled up in the blanket, like a spring roll.

I'm happy when I travel !

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

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!

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

What made me happy, a waterfall.

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

What makes me happy is to be on holiday.

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

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

What makes me happy is the shivers I get when I hear a song that moves me.

What makes me happy is after washing my hands, to dry them in the hot air of the hand dryer. That marks a nice pause in my day.

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

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 freedom of thought and see how deep and creative and generous people can be when they are free.

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.

lived my greatest happiness after having gone through a period of depression. I walk outside and I kneeled before the color of the starry sky and I told myself: God it's beautiful!

What makes me happy are those lives I dream of and those dreams I live in.

Laughing and playing with my son and swimming in the ocean

Overall, my friends (boys or girls) are the ones who make me happy, because they're always there for me.

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

What made me happy lately was to hear that I was pregnant after so many fruitless attempts.

My faith in God makes me feel happy.

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

Walking barefoot and feeling the sun under my feet.

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

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 happiest is the fact that a child can be born from me and that one day I'll have little toes in my belly...

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

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

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 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 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 returning home, soaked, during a storm and hearing the rain beating against the windowpanes while I heat up tea!

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

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