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 my happy is that , currently, I only come across friendly people : the optician and her manager, the sales assistants of the sporting goods store ,of the hardware store and at the cultural goods (cds, dvds, books and video games) and craft arts stores , and the waiters and cashiers at the chinese restaurant).

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

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

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

What makes me happy is that my annuual medical appointment with my cardiologist was OK, and that even if unfortunately, she leaves the region,, she has found a cardiologist specialized, like her, in congenital hearth disease (my disease), who works in the region where I am move in, whom she knows well, and promised me that he is friendly.

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.

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

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

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

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

What makes me happy ? To create.

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 snakes and when my parents accepted to get one at home.

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 after washing my hands, to dry them in the hot air of the hand dryer. That marks a nice pause in my day.

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

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.

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 in an excellent mood and knowing how to share it with those around me.

Breathing everyday and going with the flow of my dailyjourney enjoying a beautiful sunny day and if possible near the sea, the lake or a river.

What makes me happy is to prepare a good meal when my son comes home.

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.

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

What makes me happy is the ability I have to express myself in any languages, even if that is not the spoken language, but by gestures or feelings.

What makes me happy is when you resuscitate a baby and suddenly hear his first cry of life tearing the silence of the room.

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.

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

What makes me happy is to have been able to get a job on my own.

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 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.

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 be healthy.

What makes me happy is to be pretty.

What makes me happy is to have a beautiful diploma.

The idea of free time makes me happy. Let me explain: life is such that we are always doing something, stressed, running around, always going faster... So, to programme some free time, time to do nothing, is an idea that gives me a real sense of happiness.

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

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 breathing deep and seeing a smile appear on my face while I realize that it's good to live, something I had forgotten for a moment.

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

What makes me happy is really knowing that one day I'll have enough power to spread love and happiness.

What makes me happy is a warm day with the wind and the blue sky of spring… A day like today.

Cultivating my friendships is what makes me happy.

What makes me happy? The sun, books, wine, when I have a good idea, a good conversation

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

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

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

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

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

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

What makes me happy is a state of mind and spiritual conscience.

What makes me happy is knowing that I am loved for who I am and that fills my heart with emotion to have tears of it in my eyes ! Then I understand that life is more than magic. Thanks to life.

What makes me happy is to eat a chocolate filled pastry behind my archi (tecture) teacher's back!!!

I met a person in the metro that made me smile…for no reason and that made me happy.

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 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 to be on holiday.

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

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.

Giving birth to my two children made me happy.

The smile of a child after an X-ray treatment… A baby holding out his hand… All that makes me happy!!

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.

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

Smelling the aroma of the pizza that's baking in my oven and thinking that I'm going treat myself !

What makes me happy is to know that I am the artist of my life ! Happiness exists provided I really want.

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 the children's smile.

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.

I am happy to have a large family and a girlfriend who shares my vision. I am happy to have a lucky star in my life professionally, financially, and for leisure, love and health.

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

What makes me happy is cracking my toes in bed instead of studying math during that time.

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

For me, it's the sea that makes me happy!!! When I see it or just even think about it I feel good deep inside. It might be quite trivial but the blue ocean makes me happy.