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

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 the first kiss in a love affair…The first craziest moments…

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

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

One of the things I like to do is ….don't laugh at me ! It is to take off the shell of hard-boiled eggs. I adore that and it makes me happy.

A woman makes me happy.

What makes me happy is to stop and enjoy a few quiet moments in my very busy life, so I can think of the distance covered, trials, moments of joy, and then I think that life is great!

What makes me happy is all that is beautiful, pure, frank and honest and that doesn't cost anything because these are the simplest things that are the most wonderful.

What makes me happy is to have come study french, start to understand it and eat Korean meals.

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 to have been able to get a job on my own.

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 to believe in life, to believe in me.

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 getting up on Sundays to prepare breakfast and going back to my bedroom to find my man rolled up in the blanket, like a spring roll.

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

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

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.

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'm in college prep, and what makes me happy is that my scores went from 2 over 20 to 4 over 20. I tell myself then, that now I see the fruits of my labors.

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 being with my family, spending time together, feeling all of their love, expressing how I feel, telling them, showing them.

What makes me happy is to get up in the morning and thank God for letting me sleep in peace.

Surprising a little sparrow while he's taking a bath in a puddle of water, that's what makes me really happy.

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

Overall, my friends (boys or girls) are the ones who make me happy, because they're always there for me.

Hugs!

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.

What made me happy was my title of European champion of table tennins in all categories and my boyfriend.

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

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

What makes me happy is that my three and a half year old son gets angry if someone wants to smush an insect or when he asks us to be quiet to not scare a bird.

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

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.

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.

The fact that I've met my soul mate makes me happy.

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.

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 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).

One evening placed on his lower back, I thought about his little round body and I realized how happy I was to be a Daddy.

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

What makes me happy is that my scientific experiments are progressing.

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!

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

What makes me happy, it is to crochet fine mats and advise some people how to do crochet and knitting.

What makes me happy is when the supernatural gets revealed in my life. Coincidences, signs, dreams that come true with the impression that life organizes everything, lucid dreams.

What made me happy was leaving for Bordeaux.

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

Nothing makes me happier than to create something with my own hands, to prepare some tempting meal that we can all share together later, or to sew cushions myself. There is a magic in creating, making, concocting something with ones own hands. It is a proof that our hands are just an extension of our thoughts.

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

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 !

Lots of things make me happy : I bought an appartment, I slept with a girl and I stopped smoking !

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.

Happiness is when I see my mother again, for whom I'll always be the same kid (even if I'm not this kid anymore) and to see her face lighting up and smiling.

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

What makes me happy is doing little things every day and realizing that those are what bring lots of happiness.

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

The idea of finding the love of my life makes me happy.

What makes me happy is seeing my love, who lives in Toulouse, very soon.

I am most happy when people thank me for holding the door for them on the metro. I leave with a lively step to the RER A.

Breathing everyday and going with the flow of my dailyjourney enjoying a beautiful sunny day and if possible near the sea, the lake or a river.

My happiness is eating my favorite meal: pureed sausage.

Giving birth to my two children made me happy.

The day when I had to defend my DES thesis I was really happy because of all the things I had endured achieving the project.

What made me happy, a waterfall.

Yesterday evening, out to see the lights of Lyon, I found myself in the park of la Tête d'Or, on a path with lights and sounds so surreal…and relaxing ! A real moment of happiness after a day of hard work.

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

What has made me happy for 30 years is to live with an exceptional woman who is my wife, my friend, my confidante and my mistress all at the same time.

What makes me happy is the feeling of a smile!

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

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

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.

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

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