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 !!!

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

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

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

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.

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. »

What makes me happy is making bread : to knead it, arrange the dough, cook it in my oven, and smell the aroma of fresh bread.

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

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

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

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

Cultivating my friendships is what makes me happy.

What makes me happy is when my husband tells me “I love you more than my life!”

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 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. »

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

What makes me happy is going to the Happython site every day, reading the testimonies of people filled with happiness ready to break up the sadness, to put my little foot on the wall, too. That puts sunshine in my eyes for the rest of the day.

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

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 life... the simplicity of people... their joy of living and the smiles that surround me... I want to be happy with them like with myself... I want to live in the moment without ever forgetting the past that made me grow up so well.

What makes me happy is the sunset above the sea.

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 to experiment with love.

What makes me happy at this moment is that I have got rid of everything in Paris, my job and a hard life, to retire and live in Tunisia at a wonderful man's side.

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 that my three and a half year old son gets angry if someone wants to smush an insect or when he asks us to be quiet to not scare a bird.

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

What makes me happy is getting a love letter meant for someone else... and getting a love letter really meant for me!

What makes me happy, it is to crochet fine mats and advise some people how to do crochet and knitting.

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

What makes me happy is staying in contact with my old friends and making new friends.

What makes me happy is the surge of love that invades my heart in the most numb of her lyrics…

I am happy because I found my P50 motorcycle that I had lost.

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

Life is at the base. I know well that there are ups and downs, it's like that, but there's the fun and that's what makes me happy.

What makes me happy is meeting passionate people. They always lend me an admiration like an imprint of their ardor, of their taste for life and love.

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 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.

To be happy, I need calm and tranquillity, to be loved and love, sunshine and perfect happiness ( a little water, some fruit, my garden on my island) and peace in the world.

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.

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

feel like the Tibetan climbing the sacred mountain ! Happiness is not the end of the path, but happiness is the very path.

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.

Walking barefoot and feeling the sun under my feet.

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

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

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

I am learning to develop my ability to « not define » life, to melt into it rather than dominate it… and by so doing… I learn to love… and the more I love… the happier I am every day!

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 eating calamari beignets in the university restaurant.

My little world makes me happy… I first of all have all my pets: Loulou, Fofinha, Nina, Cleo, Cesar, Micas they are my dogs who, I can assure you, are also very happy with 3400 feet of field and two little houses… My cats: Tigrao, Faisca, Princesa who have 4 little kittens Milady, Aramis, Dartanhan, Portos… My tortoises whose names are: César and Cléopâtre…. My birds in big cage…

What makes me happy is sharing my newspaper with a neighbor on the metro who reads it over my shoulder.

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

What makes me feel really happy is to be free to act, speak and realise my dreams.

To eat chips makes me happy

What makes me happy : family meetings, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren…

What makes me happy is doing a task that, I feel, fits with me and my personnality.

What makes me happy is seeing the face of Kalé, my coworker, light up when I make him read the last Happython

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 !!!

What makes me happy is to be pretty.

What makes me happy is really knowing that one day I'll have enough power to spread love and happiness.

What makes me happy are my kids' smiles in the morning.

What makes me happy is my calm spirit

What makes me happy ? Sitting between others, while I feel a little wind on my face and watch the sunset.

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 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 the shoo-shoobidoos, the waboo waboos and all the rest.

Giving birth to my two children made me happy.

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 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...

What made me happy was leaving for Bordeaux.

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

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