What makes me happy ? To create.

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 to be pretty.

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.

As far as I'm concerned, what made me happy was to meet this great guy who I really love a lot.

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

What makes me happy is the feeling of a smile!

What makes me happy ? The field of grapefruit in pink mornings.

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

Yesterday it rained, I went for a walk with Deal along the ocean, we took photos of each other, we kissed each other, we laughed, we warmed up in a pub, and we shared a chocolate cake and a cherry tea.

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.

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.

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

To see my rabbit smiles thanks to the web cam on the net (!).

What makes me happy : Luigi who plays the guitar !

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

To feel the blending of warmth and cool in a summer evening, to drink a cool beer, to eat spiced olives, to hear my friends laugh, for me, that is happiness (in summer).

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

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

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

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...

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

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 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!

A moment of happiness: the kiss from this little girl who thanked me for having cured her mommy. What made me happy yesterday was passing the evening with the man I love, dancing all night with him and showing him that his black skin and my white skin show at the same time both contrast and harmony.

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

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 receiving a message that is proof of a pardon granted by a friend...maybe found again.

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

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

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 go to the cinema with a girl who really appeals to me.

What makes me happy is learning that my parents are going to leave for a lover's weekend. After 23 years of marriage, isn't it still really cute?

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 telling myself that, whatever happens, if we separate or find each other again, whatever time passes, no one will be able to erase our most cherished memories.

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.

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

What makes me happy is getting online at noon each day on one of the computers at med school with Celine and Arthur to leave messages on Happython !

What makes me happiest is the love of my future husband who, despite leukemia, helps me to get through life.

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

What makes me happy is to eat a chocolate filled pastry behind my archi (tecture) teacher's back!!!

What warms my heart and makes me happy is when nothing relents, seeing that my ideas come back stronger and more definite.

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…

Wednesday afternoon, I visit my grand mother at the old folks home. Our walk in the park brings us closer. Seeing her smile and her joy makes me happy.

What makes me happiest is laughing, with time, over things I've cried a lot about. That's how I finally tell myself that life is too beautiful but it's us who often see the world in black.

This is great !! The virus of happiness !! I'd like to give you my own definition of happiness... : “Happinees is like a butterfly. If you run after it, it will escape... But if you let it be, it will land softly on your shoulder...”

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

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

For me, what makes me happy is accomplishing the tasks I have to do... however small they are... the satisfaction of finished work...

The thing that makes me happiest is someone's love and people's respect and the world smiling at me.

What makes me happy is seeing the face of Kalé, my coworker, light up when I make him read the last Happython

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

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

Smelling the scent of my children makes me happy.

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.

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.

The light and sparkles in children's eyes sometimes make me feel like crying with happiness.

What makes me happy is seeing the popcorn head of my love waking up.

What made me happy was rowing with my father one night with a full moon, at 4 in the morning, in the Parana delta in Argentina.

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

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

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!

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

Laughing and playing with my son and swimming in the ocean

Up until now nothing that I have accomplished or created in my life is worth mentioning compared to that freedom I have acquired through the fact of doing nothing to accomplish, change or improve anything in the world, including myself

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!

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

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.

A wet spring evening simply 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.

What makes me happy is to have been able to get a good education « educazione » !

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

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.