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 !

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 to get up in the morning and think that I'm still there despite the past difficulties.

My marriage has made me happy.

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

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 happy is thinking of the happy future waiting for me somewhere in the universe.

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 to be with a friend and with the kids.

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

What makes me happy is listening to Metallica while petting a kitten.

What makes me happy is to please to my parents so that they are proud of me. Thank you Dad and Mum, I'm madly in love with you!!!

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

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

What makes me happy is that I have found a bigger appartment that mine for the same price in the region where I am moving (a region where real estate is normally more expensive than in my region).

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

What makes me happy is to be in Italy.

What makes me happy is that, despite all the world's problems, there are at least 20318 happy people.

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 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 to see happy sports people.

What makes me happy is to please to my parents so that they are proud of me. Thank you Dad and Mum, I'm madly in love with you!!!

What makes me happy is having being able to create and form a happy couple with children.

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 when my neighbour kindly offers me « tourtisseaux » to thank me for a small favour.

I am happy when I travel around the world and get to know different possible ways of being happy.

What makes me happy is girls.

My faith in God makes me feel happy.

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

What makes me happy is seeing all the different colors and ethnicities in the metro when I run errands in the morning…

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

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.

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.

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

What makes me happy is that, though I am agoraphobic, I have made a great friend Pascale thanks to Internet, and I thank her for having friendly feelings for me.

The idea of free time makes me happy. Let me explain: life is such that we are always doing something, stressed, running around, always going faster... So, to programme some free time, time to do nothing, is an idea that gives me a real sense of happiness.

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 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 thinking through the best moments I've lived to determine which one is the best and thus reliving them.

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

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.

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 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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

All my travels.

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 made me happy was to find out that I was pregnant with the child of the man of my life.

For you I am not merely a thing, my happiness is you, Pilou.

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

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 is to be with my friends with a friend called Sasi, and also Fiore and Dolores.

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

What makes me happy is the feeling of a smile!

What makes me happy is to be sitting outside a café with nothing to do but let my mind wander (daydream), sip my drink and watch people walk by.

What makes me happy is the generosity of people who support Florence Aubenas and Hussein Hanoun. Finally solidarity doesn't end.

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

What makes me happy is getting back home after a long day at college, putting my hand in my mailbox and discovering a postcard from someone I love.

My referee diploma made me happy.

Life and loving others makes me happy.

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

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

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 happy is to be in Italy.

What makes me happy is telling myself that I am going to see the man of my dreams on my right during my classes.

Getting married to someone I love. A nice trip with my family. Having a good job!

What makes me happy is when I have the giggles and when I laugh so much so that I have a stomachache… I feel so well after shading tears of laughter.

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

What makes me happy is to be back on the education road.

When something wonderful appears in my life. Coincidences, signs, dreams which become reality with the impression that it's life which is organizing everything, lucid dreams.