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.

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

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

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

What does make me happy is to watch the waves lapping on the fine sand

My success (academic with honors) makes me happy.

What makes me happy is to be desired.

What makes me happiest is the fact that a child can be born from me and that one day I'll have little toes in my belly...

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

What makes me happy is the children's smile.

I'm against peoples' oppression and I want them to be free, so I am happy when there is justice on earth,…

I am happy as soon as I get home from the office in the evening and see my child's smile.

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 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 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 the happiness of others surrounding me.

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

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.

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

Life is at the base. I know well that there are ups and downs, it's like that, but there's the fun and that's what makes me happy.

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

Hugs!

The simplest feeling of happiness is to know that someone somewhere loves you.

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 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 seeing her in the morning, brushing her teeth in her robe, her gaze far away. I look at her, and our eyes meet.

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.

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

What makes me happy is getting up in the morning, stretching out on my sofa and letting the sun warms my bare feet through the window.

To see my baby's birth.

My faith in God makes me feel happy.

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

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

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 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 seeing my sweetie smile while reading the Happython each day.

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

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

What makes me happy, a great privelege in my heart, when my little 4-year-old friend, Joey, takes my hand, taking this gesture of love from this child who moves me, but completely... I become gaga with...

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

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

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

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

What makes me happy, even if it may look strange, it is when I drive to work in the morning.

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

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

What made me happy: Over, my first boyfriend at school, which I'll never forget.

What makes me happy is to skid and slide in front of the tobacco shop !

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

What makes me happy is getting a love letter meant for someone else... and getting a love letter really meant for me!

My job!

My success (academic with honors) makes me happy.

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.

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

Walking barefoot and feeling the sun under my feet.

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

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 having sponsored a little african, who comes from Burundi !

What makes me happy is writing a message to Happython and knowing that one day, maybe, my testimony with help spread the virus of happiness.

What makes me happy is to get up in the morning and think that I'm still there despite the past difficulties.

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 wheever I go beach and watch the clouds.

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.

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.

The soccer team makes me happy.

What makes me happy is leaving work on Friday afternoon and walking in Bordeaux for an hour savoring each minute of the beginning of my weekend !

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.

What makes me happy is when in the dreams' fall when the breath of the day raises my eyelids, I'm aware that the moment when finally I'll be free is close. Every minute, every second that goes by is a step towards our reunion, my darling, my Night, my life.

What makes me happy is life... the simplicity of people... their joy of living and the smiles that surround me... I want to be happy with them like with myself... I want to live in the moment without ever forgetting the past that made me grow up so well.

What makes me happy is a genuine and simple friendship.

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.

Happiness is in my nature, I always say that the sun is shining in my head. What makes me happy is loving life and every day there's always the same intensity inside me.

What makes me happy is nature. Walking in the grass or on a beach, lying in fields, watching the sunset, picking wild leeks to make an omelette with them.

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.