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

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…

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 !!!

Having a cat makes me happy.

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.

I am happy when I travel around the world and get to know different possible ways of being happy.

What makes me happy is living the life I've always wanted to live.

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 little everyday moments like for example : sitting on the edge of a lake and contemplating nature, horsebackriding in the woods, among other examples.

What makes me happy is that my annuual medical appointment with my cardiologist was OK, and that even if unfortunately, she leaves the region,, she has found a cardiologist specialized, like her, in congenital hearth disease (my disease), who works in the region where I am move in, whom she knows well, and promised me that he is friendly.

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

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

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

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 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.

What makes me happy is that I have found a bigger appartment that mine for the same price in the region where I am moving (a region where real estate is normally more expensive than in my region).

I thought it was only possible to die from sadness. But one day I nearly died from happiness when the man I had always loved from afar, but only ever hoped to talk to, came and talked to me. It was the most beautiful day of my life.

My faith in God makes me feel happy.

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

My happiness is complete when I let the metro pass to keep kissing my love on the latform...telling myself that I'll take it maybe the next day or the day after that.

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

What makes me happy? Well, I've been married to the man I adore for 36 and we are going to celebrate our 30th marriage anniversary next October 28. We have two sons, 22 and 29 years old, I am surrounded by love. Each second of my life I find a little 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 feel really happy is to be free to act, speak and realise my dreams.

What makes me happy is to be in Italy.

What makes me happy is having discovered Happython planet ! and sharing my happiness with others. I have hope for the best days.

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

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

What makes me happy is to know that I am the artist of my life ! Happiness exists provided I really want.

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 !!

What makes me happy is living the life I've always wanted to live.

What makes me happy is being at the foot of a mountain or a hill and looking at the summit telling it « Soon !, », then marching on to sweat, breathe, suffer a little, climb up to that summit and tell yourself : « I did it. Thank you ». Just a challenge between you and nature. That's one of the most beautiful things in the world.

What makes me happy is eating calamari beignets in the university restaurant.

What makes me happy is seeing a smile erase the wrinkles on my husband's face.

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 a cloudless sky.

What made me happy, it is when I was elected Miss France 2003 on december 14, 2002 and my great pleasure was when I saw my mother after that. In her eyes I could see how proud and happy she was. I think it is the most beautiful present I can offer her.

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

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

What makes me happy is when my neighbour kindly offers me « tourtisseaux » to thank me for a small favour.

Having brought to light a vocation. My son was studying Sociology and Economic Sciences at the University of Jussieu. One summer I forced him to work in a hospital to earn some pocket money. He dropped his studies to study at the I.F.S.I. (Nurses Training School) Today, at 25 he is happy, his job is a true vocation. His patients are happy and me too, I'm happy

What made me happy : learn that Caro and Math are excepting a baby !

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

I am happy when I travel around the world and get to know different possible ways of being happy.

I am happy to have a large family and a girlfriend who shares my vision. I am happy to have a lucky star in my life professionally, financially, and for leisure, love and health.

What makes me happy is to live without any worries.

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 happy is that my best friend came with her boyfriend and offered me to go out to take my mind off things because I had just been chucked.

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

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

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 think every morning when I read the happython, that I'm not the only one to think that way

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!!!

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

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

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

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

What makes me happy, a great privelege in my heart, when my little 4-year-old friend, Joey, takes my hand, taking this gesture of love from this child who moves me, but completely... I become gaga with...

What made me happy was leaving for Bordeaux.

My most beautiful moment of happiness was when my love, Nuno Filipe, had prepared for me the most beautiful Valentine's day…. We went to the highest place in the region. Without me noticing anything, he took out two crystal glasses of champaign and a red roses bunch where there was a little note: with lots of love. And the best: a ring, a solitaire and the most important, lots of love…

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

Just to hear some good news on the radio.

To take the time to eat in a fine restaurant in Marseille and to savour the different meals…

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 to have a beautiful diploma.

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

What makes me happy is feeling so small in front of a stormy ocean, smelling the spray on my face : I simply feel content, and I realize the futility of all my little everyday worries.

What makes me happy is making up with a colleague ! ( a little daily pleasure)

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

What makes me happy is reading every little bit of joy in my children's eyes.

What makes me happy is to be desired.

I'm in college prep, and what makes me happy is that my scores went from 2 over 20 to 4 over 20. I tell myself then, that now I see the fruits of my labors.