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 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 is that my scientific experiments are progressing.

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 thinking through the best moments I've lived to determine which one is the best and thus reliving them.

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.

What makes me happy is having sponsored a little african, who comes from Burundi !

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 seeing whales in the distance spitting water, indifferent to the spectators sitting around a fire on this Zipolite beach.

What makes me happy is to see the others happy, my dearest, my friends, all the people I like.

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

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

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 !!!

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 !

What makes me happy is being a great-great grandfather.

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

So passionate, so tender, to hold me in your arms, kiss me gently and… tu make me fall on the bed ! You are so clumsy, my love, but how I love you, ooof ! I think about it in the metro, and I burst out laughing. I am happy.

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

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.

My success (academic with honors) 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.

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

What makes me happy is that I'm in good health, I'm active, I've got good morals, and I rarely get angry!

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 seeing my sweetie smile while reading the Happython each day.

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 that when I walk in the street, my steps are exactly as long as the bands on the crosswalk. I feel like I'm in harmony with my environment

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 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.

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.

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

My wife makes me happy… She helped me to discover what real life is like!!!

My cousing Mathilde, 3 and a half years old, was skeptical when we told her, after school, that her little sister had been born during the day. But if you had seen her when she finally met Alice, she was ovewhelmed with joy !!!

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

What makes me happy is seeing my reflection in the eyes of my son.

What makes me happy is writing a message to Happython and knowing that one day, maybe, my testimony with help spread the virus of happiness.

See and have the sun when I get up in the morning!

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.

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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!

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

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.

Most importantly a woman in my life and then my studies that have made me the person I am now.

What makes me happy is to have come study french, start to understand it and eat Korean meals.

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

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

What made me happy was when I played my first notes on the guitar a few months ago. So far I believed music was not for me.

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

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!!!

My relationship makes me very happy. I really have the impression that I create that every day. What allowed me to live this relationship, was when I started to respect myself and to listen to myself. Of course the other person senses that and naturally comes to you without effort. Afterwards the secret is not to tie the net, not to become a living prison, but on the contrary to open up the space with kind attention and love. Programme for a beautiful relationship: - Respect it – Listen to oneself (and the other too !) – Encourage light thoughts towards the other – Continue as if you were alone - Love the other person tenderly - Have fun together.

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

What made me happy was to meet, totally by chance, the man who is now my husband. Thanks to fate, every day is a happy day.

Life and loving others makes me happy.

What made me happy, a waterfall.

What makes me happy is the children's smile.

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 be pretty.

What makes me happy is listening to Metallica while petting a kitten.

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

What makes me the happiest is to see the people I love happy.

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

What makes me happy is seeing my love, who lives in Toulouse, very soon.

What made me happy Tuesday was seeing my cashier at the supermarket.

What makes me happy is snakes and when my parents accepted to get one at home.

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

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, 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 lately was to hear that I was pregnant after so many fruitless attempts.

What makes me happy is to take out all my toys.

What makes me happy is receiving a message that is proof of a pardon granted by a friend...maybe found again.

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

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

What makes me happy is to be desired.

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

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