The happiest day of my live was when I left the hole I was hidden in for a month during the war in Rwanda. That day, the sun shone like it will no longer and the breeze was a caress that no man has ever given me. It was June 21, 1994 around 3 :00 p.m. I was 14.

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.

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…

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

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.

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

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

What makes me happy is to be on holiday.

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 making up with a colleague ! ( a little daily pleasure)

I adore my little kitten's caresses. That makes me happy.

What makes me happy is to experiment with love.

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

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

What makes me happy is to have a cat.

What makes me happy is to read every morning the Happython when I'm in class. It puts me in a good mood for all the day.

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

What makes me happy : Luigi who plays the guitar !

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

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

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.

What makes me happy is to have a cat.

What makes me happy is when the people in the metro don't look just at their feet but at each other, and smile.

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

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 ? To create.

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!!! Well, I'm only 17 years old, so my happiness is far from complete, but I'll say that what makes me happy is seeing people smile.

What makes me happy is the enthusiasm I feel when I'm doing my work properly. I think that living for your vocation is the best way to be happy.

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

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

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 to know that I am the artist of my life ! Happiness exists provided I really want.

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

What makes me happy is when I have the giggles and when I laugh so much so that I have a stomachache… I feel so well after shading tears of laughter.

What makes me happy is to be with a friend and with the kids.

I like eating spaghetti and curly lettuce with some surimi, I like cuddles and playing with my friends, it makes me happy.

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

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 makes me happy is cracking my toes in bed instead of studying math during that time.

What makes me happy is having being able to create and form a happy couple with children.

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

Happiness was when my adoptive brother and sister found their biological mother and also the 26th of August when I knew that I was cured of my cancer.

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.

What makes me happy is the shoo-shoobidoos, the waboo waboos and all the rest.

What makes me happy is being with my family, spending time together, feeling all of their love, expressing how I feel, telling them, showing them.

What makes me happy is finally being myself in my own eyes and in the eyes of my loved ones.

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

What makes me happy is to have been able to get a good education « educazione » !

The purchase of a house in the country made me happy. It gave me a goal.

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.

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

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!

Laughing and playing with my son and swimming in the ocean

My children ‘s smiles make 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 does make me happy is to watch the waves lapping on the fine sand

What makes me happy is reading happython every morning in class. That puts me in a good mood for the rest of the day.

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 !!!

Love!

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

What makes me happy is the day when my mother told me that she was happy to have a daughter like me.

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

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

The soccer team makes me happy.

Getting married to someone I love. A nice trip with my family. Having a good job!

A wet spring evening simply makes me happy.

What makes me happy is to be at the bottom of a mountain, a hill…watching the top and say to it: “see you soon”… To walk, sweat, breath, sometimes to suffer a little… and reach the top and think: “I've done it, thank you”. Just a challenge with nature. This is one of the most wonderful things in the world.

What makes me happy is when my boyfriend tells me he loves me.

What makes me happy : all the young people getting involved in the life of a new family…and those babies continuing life.

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 that people read the little Happython phrases that I cut out of the newspaper and paste on the walls in my bathrooms. Even Charlotte, who is preschool, sometimes takes more than twenty minutes.