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

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.

Life and loving others makes me happy.

I am happy when I do well in my studies.

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

What makes me the happiest is to see the people I love happy.

What makes me happy is my little 80-year-old mother, who is chock full of joyful projects : she's going to move into a new appartment.

What makes me happy is a warm day with the wind and the blue sky of spring… A day like today.

What made me happy was when I played my first notes on the guitar a few months ago. So far I believed music was not for me.

The day when my son was born was a day full of happiness.

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!

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

What makes my happy is that , currently, I only come across friendly people : the optician and her manager, the sales assistants of the sporting goods store ,of the hardware store and at the cultural goods (cds, dvds, books and video games) and craft arts stores , and the waiters and cashiers at the chinese restaurant).

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.

What makes me happy is to talk to people and to learn something from them.

What makes me happy is to have a beautiful diploma.

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

I am happy because I found my P50 motorcycle that I had lost.

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

What makes me happy is to be desired.

What makes me happy is to eat everyday with my friends, each bite is for me a breath of life.

It's my children that make me happy : my son Samuel, who is 1, and my daughter Mélissa-Jade, who is 14, they are the most precious things I have on Earth.

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 to be back on the education road.

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

What makes me happy is seeing my sweetie smile while reading the Happython each day.

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 that people read the little Happython phrases that I cut out of the newspaper and paste on the walls in my bathrooms. Even Charlotte, who is preschool, sometimes takes more than twenty minutes.

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

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 !

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

I met a person in the metro that made me smile…for no reason and that made me happy.

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

What made me happy was seeing that people haven't yet forgotten Ingrid Bettancourt and her thousand-day-detention, November 19, 2004.

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

What makes me feel really happy is to be free to act, speak and realise my dreams.

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

The day when my son was born was a day full of happiness.

What makes me happy is chatting with my aunt on the internet and seeing her smile thanks to the webcam.

What makes me wild with happiness is to think that I get life ahead of me to make all my dreams come true, to meet ‘the' woman willing to offer me some kids, to see my babies grow, to make a contribution to tolerance for everyone, and mostly do my best not to wake up one day and think that I have made a mess of my life…

What makes me happy is to read Happython in Metro newspaper with my beloved chums every day.

I no longer remember exactly when, But it was approximately in 1996 that I decided to “do something with Internet” It took me until April 1997 to get together the equipment, the connections and the supplies, but then bang, I saw photos of people far away appearing before my eyes, with immediacy of connection and of memory. Wow. For each question I had to do with actual things, ideas or sources of ideas, or how to do something, etc. etc. I could find the reply in a few minutes, and that's when I realised: One doesn't need to know how to reach one's goal before one has decided it - simply dream it and the answers to how you can succeed are on Internet – even if you wish to work towards an enlightened planetary civilisation…

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

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.

What makes me happy : all the young people getting involved in the life of a new family…and those babies continuing life.

What makes me happy is to have a cat.

Surprising my brother and seeing the happiness on his face, that's enough to make me happy.

What makes me the happiest is to see the people I love happy.

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).

What makes me happy is when I find myself in the mountains again, simply in nature.

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.

What makes me happy is the sea. When I see it or when I think about it, I am really comfortable in my own being. Oh yes, it's boring but it's the ocean blue that makes me happy.

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 doing little things every day and realizing that those are what bring lots of happiness.

To know that there's at least one person on earth who loves me for who I am, who shares my sad and happy moments and who never gets fed up saying “I love you”.

Smelling the aroma of the pizza that's baking in my oven and thinking that I'm going treat myself !

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

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

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

What makes me happy is a genuine and simple friendship.

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.

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

What made me happy...I'm going to be very original: the birth of my son! When they put him on my stomach and I saw his face for the first time.

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 spending time with my friends, going out with them, sharing my deepest thoughts with them and feeling their trust.

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

Freedom makes me feel happy.

I love to feel that boundaries don't exist here, smiles are the same everywhere, they can be exchanged in every language… that makes me happy.

Just to hear some good news on the radio.

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.

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

What makes me happy is to be at the bottom of a mountain, a hill…watching the top and say to it: “see you soon”… To walk, sweat, breath, sometimes to suffer a little… and reach the top and think: “I've done it, thank you”. Just a challenge with nature. This is one of the most wonderful things in the world.

What makes me happy is being able to hold onto my freedom that I can use again and again.

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