I am learning to develop my ability to « not define » life, to melt into it rather than dominate it… and by so doing… I learn to love… and the more I love… the happier I am every day!

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

I'm happy when my pupils smile in class and when they seem to be happy to be at school.

What makes me happy is finding the right temperature of water in the shower right away… I hate cold showers…

The day I passed my driving license I was really happy because I had always thought I was useless

What makes me happy is to read every morning the Happython when I'm in class. It puts me in a good mood for all the day.

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 skid and slide in front of the tobacco shop !

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 the beauty of the sky.

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

What makes me happy at this moment is that I have got rid of everything in Paris, my job and a hard life, to retire and live in Tunisia at a wonderful man's side.

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.

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

So passionate, so tender, to hold me in your arms, kiss me gently and… tu make me fall on the bed ! You are so clumsy, my love, but how I love you, ooof ! I think about it in the metro, and I burst out laughing. I am happy.

To eat chips makes me happy

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

What makes me happy is to be pretty.

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 dream and imagine things about battles and love.

What makes me happy is seeing my best friend again after almost two years apart.

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

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.

Giving birth to my two children made me happy.

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

What makes me happy is thinking that I've succeeded in getting out of many decades of abuse by myself. Others will succeed as well.

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 reading or writing to my loved ones. It's knowing that I am there for them and that they're there for me.

What makes me happy is to be healthy.

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 success (academic with honors) makes me happy.

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

What made me happy ? After loving lots of men, I fell in love with a woman and for that wonderful love, I gave up men and my former way of life. But it is worth while, I love and I am loved, peaceful and completely happy, that great affection…

What makes me happy is to go to the cinema with a girl who really appeals to me.

What makes me happy is receiving a message that is proof of a pardon granted by a friend...maybe found again.

What made me happy was leaving for Bordeaux.

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

I'm happy when I'm part of the happiness of the people around me.

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.

My faith in God makes me feel happy.

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

What makes me happy is the sunset above the sea.

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

0n Saint Valentin's night I decided to make love with a 40-year-old man. I was his little princess, I desired him so much that I was afraid. I was trembling. He made love with me as none had ever done . On that night I saw the wolf : happy.

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

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 that I'm in good health, I'm active, I've got good morals, and I rarely get angry!

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

Hugs!

A kind of happiness that will never pass away is giving birth to a child, it is the most beautiful happiness to my mind.

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

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

Freedom makes me feel happy.

What makes me happy is seeing my girlfriend in the morning on the train tell me « until tonight, my love, » and then leave listening to Chuck Berry singing « Johnny B. Goode. »

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 holding one of the metro's double doors, while exchanging a smile, and vice-versa.

What makes me happy is to think every morning when I read the happython, that I'm not the only one to think that way

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

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 makes me happy is that it's raining today instead of a day when the weather's nice.

What makes me happy is the happiness of others surrounding me.

What makes me happy at this moment is that I have got rid of everything in Paris, my job and a hard life, to retire and live in Tunisia at a wonderful man's side.

Walking barefoot and feeling the sun under my feet.

Life and loving others makes me happy.

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 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 ? The successful moments, the nice memories from my childhood.

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

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

What makes me happy!!! Well, I'm only 17 years old, so my happiness is far from complete, but I'll say that what makes me happy is seeing people smile.

What makes me happy? My new life with the man of my life hihihi !

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.