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!

My greatest happiness has been the birth of my two children! One boy one girl:

Each morning on my way to work, I read the newspaper and I hurry up to read the Happython. Often I find myself in what was said. Today, it's my turn. What makes me happy is going to bed early and waking up late when I don't have to work.

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 to see his first name show up on my cell phone when at the same moment I'm thinking of him.

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

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.

What makes me happy is to see animals.

What made me happy: Over, my first boyfriend at school, which I'll never forget.

What makes me happy is to talk to people and to learn something from them.

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.

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

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.

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.

The thing that makes me happiest is someone's love and people's respect and the world smiling at me.

Seeing my son find his taste for life again makes me really happy !

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.

For me, what makes me happy is accomplishing the tasks I have to do... however small they are... the satisfaction of finished work...

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

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

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.

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

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 seeing the face of Kalé, my coworker, light up when I make him read the last Happython

What makes me happy is telling myself every morning, while reading the Happython, that I am not the only one who thinks like this.

My 14 years old son has a very worn stuffed bear and I hadn't been able to find one just like it to replace it. Today, I search online and I finally found it. I order four in advance and I feel like the happiest of all mothers.

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

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

What makes me happy is to be on holiday.

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.

What makes me happy ? To create.

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 makes me happy is to stop and enjoy a few quiet moments in my very busy life, so I can think of the distance covered, trials, moments of joy, and then I think that life is great!

What makes me happy is the ability I have to express myself in any languages, even if that is not the spoken language, but by gestures or feelings.

What made me happy was rowing with my father one night with a full moon, at 4 in the morning, in the Parana delta in Argentina.

To see my rabbit smiles thanks to the web cam on the net (!).

The purest moment of happiness was my fiance's return to France after eight months spent in prison, in Turkey... All that because he had taken some papers! For now, it's my most beautiful moment.

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.

I love to feel that boundaries don't exist here, smiles are the same everywhere, they can be exchanged in every language… that makes me happy.

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 read Happython in Metro newspaper with my beloved chums every day.

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 makes me happy is finally getting to use the internet !

What makes me happy is to prepare a good meal when my son comes home.

What makes me happy ? A bird singing in the morning when I get up.

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

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

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

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…

To feel loved by my surroundings and to be able to return that love makes me happy.

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

What makes me happy is seeing the popcorn head of my love waking up.

Happy to hear you smile...

What makes me happy is to get up in the morning and thank God for letting me sleep in peace.

I have just come out of a coma. Here it is : happiness is to be alive again.

What made me happy was leaving for Bordeaux.

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

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

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

What makes me happy is girls.

What makes me happy is that everybody is fine.

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.

Hearing someone whistle will always be for me, synonymous with happiness. Thans Papy.

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...

To help people as much as I can makes me feel happy.

My marriage has made me happy.

What makes me wild with happiness is to think that I get life ahead of me to make all my dreams come true, to meet ‘the' woman willing to offer me some kids, to see my babies grow, to make a contribution to tolerance for everyone, and mostly do my best not to wake up one day and think that I have made a mess of my life…

What makes me happy is the idea of not waking up early in the morning, not taking the bus to school, not working, because studying too much can kill, but I do it anyway, I'm still happy.

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

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 ? 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 my title of European champion of table tennins in all categories and my boyfriend.

A moment of happiness: the kiss from this little girl who thanked me for having cured her mommy. What made me happy yesterday was passing the evening with the man I love, dancing all night with him and showing him that his black skin and my white skin show at the same time both contrast and harmony.

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.