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.

For me, happiness is a content life as a couple, sharing intense moments with another person, who I'm anxious to find again...

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

What makes me happy is to go to the cinema with a girl who really appeals to me.

What makes me happy ? Sitting between others, while I feel a little wind on my face and watch the sunset.

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

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

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.

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

To travel to Europe to see my brother's son who was born the day before yesterday.

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

What makes me happy is a warm day with the wind and the blue sky of spring… A day like today.

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

What made me happy was seeing that people haven't yet forgotten Ingrid Bettancourt and her thousand-day-detention, November 19, 2004.

What makes me happy is telling myself that, whatever happens, if we separate or find each other again, whatever time passes, no one will be able to erase our most cherished memories.

What makes me happy is to have left my parents' house.

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 to be on holiday.

A particular moment in the summer of 2002 really made me happy. My father and I went fishing to the little river going near my childhood's village, in rocky canyons. He fishes with the hand since he was a little boy and this year I was also successful when I got a fish with my hand. The atmosphere and this moment of complicity both made me reach heaven.

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.

Smelling the aroma of the pizza that's baking in my oven and thinking that I'm going treat myself !

The light and sparkles in children's eyes sometimes make me feel like crying with happiness.

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

What makes me happy is a cloudless sky.

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

I was never as happy as I was two days ago when, opening the small package my love had nervously given to me, I discovered a pair of tiny shoes. I then understood that we were going to have a baby.

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

What makes me happy is to have been able to get a job on my own.

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

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 seeing my reflection in the eyes of my son.

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 being able to hold onto my freedom that I can use again and again.

What makes me happy is the sunset above the sea.

What makes me happy is the surge of love that invades my heart in the most numb of her lyrics…

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 made me happy was being born into softness, joy and love, and knowing that when I open my door, all of it spreads out to the entire world.

What make me happy are the moments when my son has a great time playing basketball, and flawlessly.

What made me happy is when I was offered a chimpanzee, which was my dearest dream.

What makes me happy is that everybody is fine.

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

Walking barefoot and feeling the sun under my feet.

What makes me happy: to know that even far away, we can count on friends !

What makes me happy is the children's smile.

What makes me happy is finally being able to walk, because I was in a wheelchair.

What makes me happy is seeing the face of Kalé, my coworker, light up when I make him read the last Happython

What makes me happy is my calm spirit

Ce qui m'a rendue heureuse c'est d'avoir eu ma fille.

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 makes me happy is the first kiss in a love affair…The first craziest moments…

My job!

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!

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 !!!

The smile of a child after an X-ray treatment… A baby holding out his hand… All that makes me happy!!

Happiness for me is to get miraculously cured of my disease.

Cultivating my friendships is what makes me happy.

For you I am not merely a thing, my happiness is you, Pilou.

What makes me happy, you see, is that I live fully in the present moment. I savor each minute with pure delicacy, that's 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.

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

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

What makes me happy is to go to the cinema with a girl who really appeals to me.

The day I passed my driving license I was really happy because I had always thought I was useless

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

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 my man's love.

I met a person in the metro that made me smile…for no reason and that made me happy.

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

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

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

What makes me happy is all that is beautiful, pure, frank and honest and that doesn't cost anything because these are the simplest things that are the most wonderful.