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, it is in the morning when I wake up in my lover's arms and he kisses me lovingly

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 freedom of thought and see how deep and creative and generous people can be when they are free.

What made me happy was seeing that people haven't yet forgotten Ingrid Bettancourt and her thousand-day-detention, November 19, 2004.

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 seeing my best friend again after almost two years apart.

What makes me the most happy is the love of my future husband who, despite leukemia, helps me to overcome all in life.

What makes me happy is to create as many problems as possible.

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

To eat chips makes me happy

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

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

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.

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

What makes me happy is a state of mind and spiritual conscience.

I am happy when I can make a date with a very good-looking girl.

I thought it was only possible to die from sadness. But one day I nearly died from happiness when the man I had always loved from afar, but only ever hoped to talk to, came and talked to me. It was the most beautiful day of my life.

I am happy when I do well in my studies.

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

Lots of things make me happy : I bought an appartment, I slept with a girl and I stopped smoking !

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

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

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 made me happy is when I was offered a chimpanzee, which was my dearest dream.

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

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

What made me happy is that my best friend came with her boyfriend and offered me to go out to take my mind off things because I had just been chucked.

I'm happy when my pupils smile in class and when they seem to be happy to be at school.

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

My happiness is complete when I let the metro pass to keep kissing my love on the latform...telling myself that I'll take it maybe the next day or the day after that.

What makes me happy is the first kiss in a love affair…The first craziest moments…

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

I am happy when I am loved for what I am.

What made me happy was when I could walk again for the first time after my operation, when I had been paralyzed.

What makes me happy : walking with your eyes closed to feel the natural elements.

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.

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...

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…

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 makes me happy is to love and be loved

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.

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 spending time with my friends, going out with them, sharing my deepest thoughts with them and feeling their trust.

What makes me happy, it is in the morning when I wake up in my lover's arms and he kisses me lovingly

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

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

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

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.

It's my children that make me happy : my son Samuel, who is 1, and my daughter Mélissa-Jade, who is 14, they are the most precious things I have on Earth.

Someone who is able to listen to you, to have a discussion with you. Also to be able to open your heart to someone who knows about human qualities.

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 ? 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.

The day I decided to take myself by the hand again (I was quite depressed) made it so that, during this time, life itself made me happy...

Life and loving others makes me happy.

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

Laughing and playing with my son and swimming in the ocean

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 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 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 seeing a smile erase the wrinkles on my husband's face.

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

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

The day when I had to defend my DES thesis I was really happy because of all the things I had endured achieving the project.

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

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

Having a cat makes me happy.

What makes me happy is thinking about what's going to make me happy later. When I get my car, a job I like, so that I can fulfill my passion and live with the woman I love and who loves me too. My happiness is living free.

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

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 seeing my love, who lives in Toulouse, very soon.

What makes me happy? Well, I've been married to the man I adore for 36 and we are going to celebrate our 30th marriage anniversary next October 28. We have two sons, 22 and 29 years old, I am surrounded by love. Each second of my life I find a little happiness.

I met a person in the metro that made me smile…for no reason and that made me happy.

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

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