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 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.

My referee diploma made me happy.

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

What makes me happy is having being able to create and form a happy couple with children.

What makes me happy is to have a beautiful diploma.

What makes me happy is seeing all the different colors and ethnicities in the metro when I run errands in the morning…

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

lived my greatest happiness after having gone through a period of depression. I walk outside and I kneeled before the color of the starry sky and I told myself: God it's beautiful!

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

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

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

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

What makes me happy is going to the Happython site every day, reading the testimonies of people filled with happiness ready to break up the sadness, to put my little foot on the wall, too. That puts sunshine in my eyes for the rest of the day.

Whenever I start to really like a person, I look at them straight in the eyes and I tell them that I love them (which is always true) : the glint that I see shine in their eyes, sometimes only for a fraction of a second, fills me with joy, and I am happy.

What makes me happy is the idea that people would learn to love each other, without any feeling of racism. The world is everybody's…

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

What makes me happy is the shoo-shoobidoos, the waboo waboos and all the rest.

My happiness is eating my favorite meal: pureed sausage.

A wet spring evening simply makes me happy.

What makes me happy is to have a special moment with my friends over an aperitif putting the world to rights.

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.

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

My happiness is complete when I let the metro pass to keep kissing my love on the latform...telling myself that I'll take it maybe the next day or the day after that.

Each morning on my way to work, I read the newspaper and I hurry up to read the Happython. Often I find myself in what was said. Today, it's my turn. What makes me happy is going to bed early and waking up late when I don't have to work.

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 made me happy...I was five years old, I wanted a little sister and I got one the day before my birthday. That was my best gift!

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

What makes me wild with happiness is to think that I get life ahead of me to make all my dreams come true, to meet ‘the' woman willing to offer me some kids, to see my babies grow, to make a contribution to tolerance for everyone, and mostly do my best not to wake up one day and think that I have made a mess of my life…

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

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

I'm a naturally happy person because I've learnt to see only the nice and positive side of what happens.

What makes me happy is having being able to create and form a happy couple with children.

What makes me happy is that, despite all the world's problems, there are at least 20318 happy people.

What makes me happy is to create as many problems as possible.

To know that there's at least one person on earth who loves me for who I am, who shares my sad and happy moments and who never gets fed up saying “I love you”.

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

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

Freedom makes me feel happy.

Having brought to light a vocation. My son was studying Sociology and Economic Sciences at the University of Jussieu. One summer I forced him to work in a hospital to earn some pocket money. He dropped his studies to study at the I.F.S.I. (Nurses Training School) Today, at 25 he is happy, his job is a true vocation. His patients are happy and me too, I'm happy

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.

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

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…

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

What makes me happy : walking with your eyes closed to feel the natural elements.

What makes me happy is seeing my parents together.

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

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

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

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

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

Having a cat makes me happy.

Whenever I start to really like a person, I look at them straight in the eyes and I tell them that I love them (which is always true) : the glint that I see shine in their eyes, sometimes only for a fraction of a second, fills me with joy, and I am happy.

What makes me happy is to be pretty.

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

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...

Ce qui m'a rendue heureuse c'est d'avoir eu ma fille.

Hearing that a friend is expecting a baby makes me happy.

My job!

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.

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.

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? My new life with the man of my life hihihi !

What makes me happy is to see the others happy, my dearest, my friends, all the people I like.

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.

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.

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.

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!

What makes me happy is to be healthy.

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

What makes me happy is when my husband tells me “I love you more than my life!”

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

Life and loving others makes me happy.

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.