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 ? 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 Tuesday was seeing my cashier at the supermarket.

A wet spring evening simply makes me happy.

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

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.

What makes me happy is holding one of the metro's double doors, while exchanging a smile, and vice-versa.

Yesterday evening, out to see the lights of Lyon, I found myself in the park of la Tête d'Or, on a path with lights and sounds so surreal…and relaxing ! A real moment of happiness after a day of hard work.

What makes me happy is thinking that I've succeeded in getting out of many decades of abuse by myself. Others will succeed as well.

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 was never as happy as I was two days ago when, opening the small package my love had nervously given to me, I discovered a pair of tiny shoes. I then understood that we were going to have a baby.

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

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

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.

What made me happy was to spend my birthday evening with my son and his girlfriend, and tomorrow it will be the same with my sister and her husband. Hurray for the family!

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 the children's smile.

What makes me happiest is all the little daily pleasures... Why search so hard, look what we have near

What makes me happy is to have been able to get a job on my own.

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

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

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

What makes me happy are those lives I dream of and those dreams I live in.

lived my greatest happiness after having gone through a period of depression. I walk outside and I kneeled before the color of the starry sky and I told myself: God it's beautiful!

All my travels.

I'm against peoples' oppression and I want them to be free, so I am happy when there is justice on earth,…

What makes me happy is breathing deep and seeing a smile appear on my face while I realize that it's good to live, something I had forgotten for a moment.

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.

Oh… little everyday trifles make me happy … a smile, a hand in mine…a look, a laughing child…happiness is very relative…but we must know to appreciate the little things.

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

What makes me happy is to believe in life, to believe in me.

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

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 : family meetings, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren…

What makes me happy is to get up in the morning and think that I'm still there despite the past difficulties.

What has made me happy for 30 years is to live with an exceptional woman who is my wife, my friend, my confidante and my mistress all at the same time.

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

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

Laughing and playing with my son and swimming in the ocean

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

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

The soccer team makes me happy.

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!

Most importantly a woman in my life and then my studies that have made me the person I am now.

The idea of finding the love of my life makes me happy.

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 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.

Yesterday at work, I thought myself the black beast and eight girls offered me chocolate. I live in Japan, and, here, it's the women who offer chocolate to men. My day had started very badly, and finished very well…

Overall, my friends (boys or girls) are the ones who make me happy, because they're always there for me.

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

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 Tuesday was seeing my cashier at the supermarket.

What makes me happy is to be in Italy.

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

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

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

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.

Walking barefoot and feeling the sun under my feet.

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.

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

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

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

What makes me happy is getting up in the morning, stretching out on my sofa and letting the sun warms my bare feet through the window.

What makes me happy is after washing my hands, to dry them in the hot air of the hand dryer. That marks a nice pause in my day.

For a very long time I have wanted to play a musical instrument while avoiding the forbidding aspect of learning the solfeggio. By some wonderful chance, I saw a photo of a man. Playing the tampoura in the desert, the flash !

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

I'm a naturally happy person because I've learnt to see only the nice and positive side of what happens.

What makes me happy is a cloudless sky.

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.

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…

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

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 when in the dreams' fall when the breath of the day raises my eyelids, I'm aware that the moment when finally I'll be free is close. Every minute, every second that goes by is a step towards our reunion, my darling, my Night, my life.