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

What makes me happy is to live without any worries.

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

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 !!!

Hearing that a friend is expecting a baby makes me happy.

What makes me happy, hmm... The first is waking up and seeing sunbeams... the second is payday... the third is my last day at work!

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.

What makes me happy is seeing middle aged couples still walking together hand in hand.

My success (academic with honors) makes me happy.

Yesterday it rained, I strolled along the ocean, a photo was taken, a kiss, a laugh, warmed up again in a cafe, shared a chocolate cake and cherry tea.

My marriage has made me happy.

What makes me happy is to be on holiday.

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

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.

My wife makes me happy… She helped me to discover what real life is like!!!

What makes me happy : Luigi who plays the guitar !

What made me happy is when my boyfriend proposed to me, but also when the Americans demonstrated against war in Irak.

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

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

What makes me happy is finally being myself in my own eyes and in the eyes of my loved ones.

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

What makes me happy is when the people in the metro don't look just at their feet but at each other, and smile.

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

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

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

What makes me happy is the beauty of the sky.

When I left alone to experience giving up everything, I had the impression that I was happy.

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, despite all the world's problems, there are at least 20318 happy people.

What makes me happy is eating calamari beignets in the university restaurant.

What makes me happy is falling in lovein the metro every morning ! Stranger from line 6, if you recognize yourself…

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

What makes me happy is to experiment with love.

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

What makes me happy is to prepare a good meal when my son comes home.

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.

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…

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.

My faith in God makes me feel happy.

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

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

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.

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

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 the children's smile.

A particular moment in the summer of 2002 really made me happy. My father and I went fishing to the little river going near my childhood's village, in rocky canyons. He fishes with the hand since he was a little boy and this year I was also successful when I got a fish with my hand. The atmosphere and this moment of complicity both made me reach heaven.

To eat chips makes me happy

What makes me happy is to have a cat.

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

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.

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.

The day when my daughter Nouha was born, on July 4th, 2004 made me happy.

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

Hearing that a friend is expecting a baby makes me happy.

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

What makes me happy is to see his first name show up on my cell phone when at the same moment I'm thinking of him.

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

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

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

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...

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.

What makes me happy is the day when my mother told me that she was happy to have a daughter like me.

What makes me happy is seeing a smile erase the wrinkles on my husband's face.

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 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 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 reading every little bit of joy in my children's eyes.

Classic happy moment, but true : waking up beside your love… a moment of pure tenderness… you wake from one dream to plunge into another…

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

What made me happy is when my boyfriend proposed to me, but also when the Americans demonstrated against war in Irak.

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.