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.

This morning, while feeding my fish, the ingrates finally recognized me ! I was crazy with joy ! (laughs)

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

What makes me happy is chatting with my aunt on the internet and seeing her smile thanks to the webcam.

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

What makes me happy is returning home, soaked, during a storm and hearing the rain beating against the windowpanes while I heat up tea!

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

Surprising my brother and seeing the happiness on his face, that's enough to make me happy.

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

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

What makes me happy is to see the smile of people I like and the sunset. It's to hear the voices melody and children laughing. It's to smell flowers perfume and that of hot coffee. It's to feel under my fingers the softness of the skin and the grains of a fine sand beach…

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

Happy to hear you smile...

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

What fills me with joy is simply that a smile from me can make my companion happy and make him smile too.

My fall in the bus this afternoon because a good-looking boy gave me a smile and helped me to get up

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

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

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 seeing my parents together.

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

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.

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

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

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

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!!! 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.

The soccer team makes me happy.

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 all the cherry trees blooming in Japan, and telling myself that nothing is more beautiful and nothing pleases us more than this langourous pink…

My children ‘s smiles make me happy.

What makes me happy is to experiment with love.

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...

What does make me happy is to watch the waves lapping on the fine sand

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.

This morning, while feeding my fish, the ingrates finally recognized me ! I was crazy with joy ! (laughs)

What fills me with joy is simply that a smile from me can make my companion happy and make him smile too.

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!

An evening between friends, with a little to drink of course. One of them accompanies you back to your taxi, one of the ones with whom you share the same complicity and sensitivity. And on a « goodbye » you steal a kiss from him, instead of an ordinary « see ya soon ». A kiss that lasts for a little while, a kiss he returns. The kind of kiss that makes you smile each time you think about it again and makes you happy.

What makes me happy is to read Happython in Metro newspaper with my beloved chums every day.

The smile of a child after an X-ray treatment… A baby holding out his hand… All that makes me happy!!

What makes me happy is to see happy sports people.

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 to create as many problems as possible.

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 running with people who are going to miss their train: not because I want to catch the train, but just for the pleasure of running and being out of breath...

A woman makes me happy.

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 the first kiss in a love affair…The first craziest moments…

Laughing and playing with my son and swimming in the ocean

It's when a simple look is enough.

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.

To feel the blending of warmth and cool in a summer evening, to drink a cool beer, to eat spiced olives, to hear my friends laugh, for me, that is happiness (in summer).

What makes me happy is knowing that I am loved for who I am and that fills my heart with emotion to have tears of it in my eyes ! Then I understand that life is more than magic. Thanks to life.

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. »

All my travels.

What makes me happy is knowing that laughing works your abs!

The light and sparkles in children's eyes sometimes make me feel like crying with happiness.

What makes me happy is the happiness of others surrounding me.

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

What really makes me happiest is seeing happy people around me, and what makes my heart smile is sharing my happiness with others.

What make me happy are the moments when my son has a great time playing basketball, and flawlessly.

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

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

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

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

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

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 when you resuscitate a baby and suddenly hear his first cry of life tearing the silence of the room.

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”.

Well, what made me happy lately was the surprise to be invited by my friend in a smart restaurant very close by my home where I had wanted to go for a long time but I had not enough money!