It's snowing. I didn't drink today (well… yeah, a little). I'm trying to answer your question… happiness ? For me this intense, deep emotion that moves me : I feel that I'm going to go away… I won't tremble anymore… live, that's all. Happiness is knowing that you can go away, happiness is the smile of someone who doesn't know that I'm an alcoholic. Happiness… is thinking that I'm normal. Happiness : being right, loyal, and honest.

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 !

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

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

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

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.

I'm happy every morning when my man snuggles up to me saying: “good morning, darling, I'm here next to you”. I shiver.

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 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 having being able to create and form a happy couple with children.

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 eating calamari beignets in the university restaurant.

What makes me happy is to please to my parents so that they are proud of me. Thank you Dad and Mum, I'm madly in love with you!!!

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.

My happiness is eating my favorite meal: pureed sausage.

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.

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 made me happy, a waterfall.

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.

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

What makes me happy is to listen to Danièle's music, dance the tarentelle and tammurriata and sing with my friends (especially napolitean songs).

What makes me happy is seeing a smile erase the wrinkles on my husband's face.

What makes me happy is to please to my parents so that they are proud of me. Thank you Dad and Mum, I'm madly in love with you!!!

See and have the sun when I get up in the morning!

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 : family meetings, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren…

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

What makes me happy is seeing my daughters happy and in good health

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 ? To be a granny, nothing is more beautiful than to see your family grow larger and be able to play the doting mother again. It makes you feel young again.

What makes me happy is when I have the giggles and when I laugh so much so that I have a stomachache… I feel so well after shading tears of laughter.

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

My cousing Mathilde, 3 and a half years old, was skeptical when we told her, after school, that her little sister had been born during the day. But if you had seen her when she finally met Alice, she was ovewhelmed with joy !!!

What made me happy was to meet, totally by chance, the man who is now my husband. Thanks to fate, every day is a happy day.

What makes me happy is telling myself every morning, while reading the Happython, that I am not the only one who thinks like this.

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.

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

Seeing my son find his taste for life again makes me really happy !

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

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 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 the children's smile.

What makes me happy is running with people who are going to miss their train: not because I want to catch the train, but just for the pleasure of running and being out of breath...

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

feel like the Tibetan climbing the sacred mountain ! Happiness is not the end of the path, but happiness is the very path.

What makes me happy is seeing that the head of a busy bar can stop working for two minutes because he saw a blind man trying desperately to walk across a crosswalk and help him cross arm in arm… that really make me happy to witness scenes like that ! Long live solidarity between people of all horizons !!

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 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.

I found a job after a long laborious search and that made me happy.

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

Laughing and playing with my son and swimming in the ocean

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

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

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

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, hmm... The first is waking up and seeing sunbeams... the second is payday... the third is my last day at work!

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

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

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

What makes me happy is a cloudless sky.

To help people as much as I can makes me feel happy.

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 !

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

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

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

Most importantly a woman in my life and then my studies that have made me the person I am now.

To travel to Europe to see my brother's son who was born the day before yesterday.

This morning, while feeding my fish, the ingrates finally recognized me ! I was crazy with joy ! (laughs)

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.

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

Tomorrow's day is already making me happy.