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 believe in life, to believe in me.

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

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

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

What makes me happy is to live without any worries.

A woman makes me happy.

What makes me happy is the feeling of a smile!

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

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

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

I no longer remember exactly when, But it was approximately in 1996 that I decided to “do something with Internet” It took me until April 1997 to get together the equipment, the connections and the supplies, but then bang, I saw photos of people far away appearing before my eyes, with immediacy of connection and of memory. Wow. For each question I had to do with actual things, ideas or sources of ideas, or how to do something, etc. etc. I could find the reply in a few minutes, and that's when I realised: One doesn't need to know how to reach one's goal before one has decided it - simply dream it and the answers to how you can succeed are on Internet – even if you wish to work towards an enlightened planetary civilisation…

My marriage has made me happy.

What makes me happy is doing little things every day and realizing that those are what bring lots of happiness.

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.

What makes me happy is to be sitting outside a café with nothing to do but let my mind wander (daydream), sip my drink and watch people walk by.

What makes me feel really happy is to be free to act, speak and realise my dreams.

After going on holidays alone, I come back home and I find my dog. It makes me happy.

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.

What makes me happy is seeing that my best friend is always there, even when things aren't going well.

It's to seat down at Cais Do Sodré and look at my country.

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

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

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.

What makes me happy, it is in the morning when I wake up in my lover's arms and he kisses me lovingly

Wednesday afternoon, I visit my grand mother at the old folks home. Our walk in the park brings us closer. Seeing her smile and her joy makes me happy.

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.

I am happy as soon as I get home from the office in the evening and see my child's smile.

What makes me happy is when you resuscitate a baby and suddenly hear his first cry of life tearing the silence of the room.

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 !!

I'm happy every morning when my man snuggles up to me saying: “good morning, darling, I'm here next to you”. I shiver.

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!!!

The day when I had to defend my DES thesis I was really happy because of all the things I had endured achieving the project.

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.

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 to see animals.

A woman makes me happy.

What makes me happiest is laughing, with time, over things I've cried a lot about. That's how I finally tell myself that life is too beautiful but it's us who often see the world in black.

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 nature. Walking in the grass or on a beach, lying in fields, watching the sunset, picking wild leeks to make an omelette with them.

What makes me happy is that it's raining today instead of a day when the weather's nice.

What fills me with joy is simply that a smile from me can make my companion happy and make him smile too.

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

The idea of finding the love of my life makes me happy.

What made me happy was when she showed me the stars and blew on my neck to warm me up.

What makes me happy is that, though I am agoraphobic, I have made a great friend Pascale thanks to Internet, and I thank her for having friendly feelings for me.

When he holds me in his arms, my head goes “pssshit.”

What makes me happy is the sunset above the sea.

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

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 made me happy was to make a break in my job in order not to work any longer, to decide to care about myself and now to give priority to my happiness.

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

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

What makes me happy is to eat a chocolate filled pastry behind my archi (tecture) teacher's back!!!

One evening placed on his lower back, I thought about his little round body and I realized how happy I was to be a Daddy.

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 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).

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.

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

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

What makes me happy is telling myself that there are places where everything is simple and less heavy than this place, and that can be here if I want it to be.

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 is to have been able to get a good education « educazione » !

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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!

Yesterday evening, out to see the lights of Lyon, I found myself in the park of la Tête d'Or, on a path with lights and sounds so surreal…and relaxing ! A real moment of happiness after a day of hard work.