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 being a great-great grandfather.

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

What made me happy lately was to hear that I was pregnant after so many fruitless attempts.

What made me happy was when she showed me the stars and blew on my neck to warm me up.

What makes me happy : Luigi who plays the guitar !

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.

Happiness now is to feel I am starting afresh, even if I am alone, and to rely on the support of faithful friends and my granddaughter born 5 months ago, that is a dream and a revival in my life.

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

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

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

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 that I've found my ideal girl.

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 seeing all the cherry trees blooming in Japan, and telling myself that nothing is more beautiful and nothing pleases us more than this langourous pink…

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 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...

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 to take out all my toys.

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.

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

What makes me happy is to see animals.

What makes me happy is to be with my friends with a friend called Sasi, and also Fiore and Dolores.

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

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

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

What makes me happy is life in general  Lots of good things happen to me, like my three boys...

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

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

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.

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

What makes me happy ? To create.

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

To feel the blending of warmth and cool in a summer evening, to drink a cool beer, to eat spiced olives, to hear my friends laugh, for me, that is happiness (in summer).

What makes me happy is to be pretty.

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.

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

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 !

Happy to hear you smile...

A woman makes me happy.

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 to be sitting outside a café with nothing to do but let my mind wander (daydream), sip my drink and watch people walk by.

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 falling in lovein the metro every morning ! Stranger from line 6, if you recognize yourself…

My greatest happiness has been the birth of my two children! One boy one girl:

What makes me happy is finally being able to walk, because I was in a wheelchair.

What makes me happy is knowing that laughing works your abs!

Yesterday it rained, I strolled along the ocean, a photo was taken, a kiss, a laugh, warmed up again in a cafe, shared a chocolate cake and cherry tea.

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.

My job!

Cultivating my friendships is what makes me happy.

What made me happy Tuesday was seeing my cashier at the supermarket.

What makes me most happy is when I see happy people. That's the reason why I try to make people happy. Sometimes a simple smile is enough…Fortunately there's a universal language that everybody can communicate with: the “language of the heart”.

What makes me happy is to share my newspaper with somebody next to me in the tube that reads over my shoulder!

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

What made me happy, it is when I was elected Miss France 2003 on december 14, 2002 and my great pleasure was when I saw my mother after that. In her eyes I could see how proud and happy she was. I think it is the most beautiful present I can offer her.

An evening between friends, with a little to drink of course. One of them accompanies you back to your taxi, one of the ones with whom you share the same complicity and sensitivity. And on a « goodbye » you steal a kiss from him, instead of an ordinary « see ya soon ». A kiss that lasts for a little while, a kiss he returns. The kind of kiss that makes you smile each time you think about it again and makes you happy.

Laughing and playing with my son and swimming in the ocean

Giving birth to my two children made me 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.

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

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

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 to be back on the education road.

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 wheever I go beach and watch the clouds.

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

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

What makes me happy is to be loved by the man of my life, a loving Canadian that fate put on my way.

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

What makes me happy is a genuine and simple friendship.