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

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

The idea of free time makes me happy. Let me explain: life is such that we are always doing something, stressed, running around, always going faster... So, to programme some free time, time to do nothing, is an idea that gives me a real sense of happiness.

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

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!

My first contact with her, my hands on her marvelous body, our first heartfelt words, our first steps along the Rhine to exchange, a little timidly, our visions of the world

What makes me happy is getting online at noon each day on one of the computers at med school with Celine and Arthur to leave messages on Happython !

My faith in God makes me feel happy.

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

What makes me happy is the existence of people on this earth who ask me what makes me happy.

What makes me happy is that my three and a half year old son gets angry if someone wants to smush an insect or when he asks us to be quiet to not scare a bird.

What makes me happy is when there is music on the streets or in the metro. It gives me the impression that the quick steps of hurried people are in rhythm on the tempo, like an urban choreography !

What makes me happy is to have a special moment with my friends over an aperitif putting the world to rights.

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

What makes me happy ? To create.

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 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.

What makes me happy is the sunset above the sea.

What makes me happy is to dream and imagine things about battles and love.

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 !!!

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 to eat braised fish with my fingers, in the shade of a tree, in the Ivory Coast, and to watch the sunrise on Buttes Chaumont Park.

What makes me happy is seeing my parents together.

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

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!!!

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

What makes me happy ? Scouting when I was young, then my commitment to a trade-union and a political party, my family – children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and hearing that my great-grandson Guillaume will soon be christened.

What made me happy was to spend my birthday evening with my son and his girlfriend, and tomorrow it will be the same with my sister and her husband. Hurray for the family!

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...

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 doing little things every day and realizing that those are what bring lots of happiness.

What makes me happy is to have the possibility to organize a great party with all the family where my brother could come with his children.

What makes me happy is freedom of thought and see how deep and creative and generous people can be when they are free.

Someone who is able to listen to you, to have a discussion with you. Also to be able to open your heart to someone who knows about human qualities.

What makes me the most happy is the love of my future husband who, despite leukemia, helps me to overcome all in life.

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 !

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.

A kind of happiness that will never pass away is giving birth to a child, it is the most beautiful happiness to my mind.

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

Lots of things make me happy : I bought an appartment, I slept with a girl and I stopped smoking !

Love!

What makes me happy is to create as many problems as possible.

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.

What made me happy ? It is probably slight …I met a totally exceptional man on a chat one year and ten days ago (de visu).

What makes me happy is seeing my girlfriend after two or three days when we haven't seen each other and she has a smile on her lips... That means we aren't going to confuse ourselves.

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 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.

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

What makes me happy is when I find myself in the mountains again, simply in nature.

What makes me happy? My new life with the man of my life hihihi !

The day I decided to take myself by the hand again (I was quite depressed) made it so that, during this time, life itself made me happy...

I am happy when I do well in my studies.

My faith in God makes me feel happy.

Having a cat makes me happy.

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

What makes me happy …To share a meal and an evening with friends.

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 makes me happy is to experiment with love.

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

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

What makes me happy : Luigi who brought me a chocolate egg, only for me !

What makes me happy is seeing my girlfriend in the morning on the train tell me « until tonight, my love, » and then leave listening to Chuck Berry singing « Johnny B. Goode. »

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

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!

I am happy when I am loved for what I am.

Yesterday it rained, I went for a walk with Deal along the ocean, we took photos of each other, we kissed each other, we laughed, we warmed up in a pub, and we shared a chocolate cake and a cherry tea.

The day when my daughter Nouha was born, on July 4th, 2004 made me happy.

What makes me happy is the generosity of people who support Florence Aubenas and Hussein Hanoun. Finally solidarity doesn't end.

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

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

I am happy because I found my P50 motorcycle that I had lost.

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.