A child's spinning top on the carpet. What a pleasure to approach it, having watched it from afar, the memories coming back of those exquisite moments where colours mingled and filled rainbow eyes. I lean over, touch the top and play with it and that simple pleasure warms my heart, it turns, turns, turns...

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!

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.

It's when a simple look is enough.

What makes me happy is seeing my parents together.

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

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

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

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

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

What makes me happy is that everybody is fine.

What makes me happy is when my boyfriend tells me he loves me.

What makes me happy is a genuine and simple friendship.

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.

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

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

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

What made me happy was being born into softness, joy and love, and knowing that when I open my door, all of it spreads out to the entire world.

Life and loving others makes me happy.

I am getting divorced, my husband prefers men, my 14-year-old daughter is pregnant, I am in love with a 22- year-old man who left for Mozambique, I am jobless, I am walking on air, Life is beautiful, I am alive ! Cool, isn't it ?

What makes me happy is being in an excellent mood and knowing how to share it with those around me.

What makes me happy is seeing my best friend again after almost two years apart.

What makes me happy is to be desired.

What made me really happy? The first time my son smiled directly at me.

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

What made me happy was to make a break in my job in order not to work any longer, to decide to care about myself and now to give priority to my happiness.

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 that the head of a busy bar can stop working for two minutes because he saw a blind man trying desperately to walk across a crosswalk and help him cross arm in arm… that really make me happy to witness scenes like that ! Long live solidarity between people of all horizons !!

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 made me happy was leaving for Bordeaux.

What makes me happy is the shivers I get when I hear a song that moves me.

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

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 telling myself that I am going to see the man of my dreams on my right during my classes.

What makes me happy is living the life I've always wanted to live.

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

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.

What makes me happy is a cloudless sky.

What made me happy : learn that Caro and Math are excepting a baby !

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

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.

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? The sun, books, wine, when I have a good idea, a good conversation

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…

What makes me happy is nature. Walking in the grass or on a beach, lying in fields, watching the sunset, picking wild leeks to make an omelette with them.

What made me happy lately was to hear that I was pregnant after so many fruitless attempts.

What makes me happy is to have my family around: my parents Fouzia and Ahmed, my sisters Souad and Malek, and my brothers Hamdi and Faouzi! May God bless them all!

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.

Surprising a little sparrow while he's taking a bath in a puddle of water, that's what makes me really 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 when I find myself in the mountains again, simply in nature.

Walking barefoot and feeling the sun under my feet.

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

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

What makes me happy is seeing her in the morning, brushing her teeth in her robe, her gaze far away. I look at her, and our eyes meet.

What made me happy is an angel on the web who gave me a lot of happiness and love and I can't forget…

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

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 to share my newspaper with somebody next to me in the tube that reads over my shoulder!

What makes me happy is to be on holiday.

It's when a simple look is enough.

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.

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 !!!

I am happy to have a large family and a girlfriend who shares my vision. I am happy to have a lucky star in my life professionally, financially, and for leisure, love and health.

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

A woman makes me happy.

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

What makes me happy is to have a beautiful diploma.

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.

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 that my scientific experiments are progressing.