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

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

What makes me happy ? Scouting when I was young, then my commitment to a trade-union and a political party, my family – children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and hearing that my great-grandson Guillaume will soon be christened.

I am most happy when people thank me for holding the door for them on the metro. I leave with a lively step to the RER A.

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 eat a chocolate filled pastry behind my archi (tecture) teacher's back!!!

To see my baby's birth.

What makes me happy is seeing the popcorn head of my love waking up.

What makes me happy ? To create.

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.

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

Classic happy moment, but true : waking up beside your love… a moment of pure tenderness… you wake from one dream to plunge into another…

Just to hear some good news on the radio.

What makes me happy is to live without any worries.

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.

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!

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

What makes me happy is telling myself that, whatever happens, if we separate or find each other again, whatever time passes, no one will be able to erase our most cherished memories.

What makes me happy ? Scouting when I was young, then my commitment to a trade-union and a political party, my family – children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and hearing that my great-grandson Guillaume will soon be christened.

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 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.

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.

I was never as happy as I was two days ago when, opening the small package my love had nervously given to me, I discovered a pair of tiny shoes. I then understood that we were going to have a baby.

My little world makes me happy… I first of all have all my pets: Loulou, Fofinha, Nina, Cleo, Cesar, Micas they are my dogs who, I can assure you, are also very happy with 3400 feet of field and two little houses… My cats: Tigrao, Faisca, Princesa who have 4 little kittens Milady, Aramis, Dartanhan, Portos… My tortoises whose names are: César and Cléopâtre…. My birds in big cage…

My faith in God makes me feel happy.

What makes me happy is to believe in life, to believe in me.

What makes me happy is the generosity of people who support Florence Aubenas and Hussein Hanoun. Finally solidarity doesn't end.

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 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...

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

What made me happy was to spend my birthday evening with my son and his girlfriend, and tomorrow it will be the same with my sister and her husband. Hurray for the family!

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.

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

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

What fills me with joy is simply that a smile from me can make my companion happy and make him smile too.

What makes me happy is getting back home after a long day at college, putting my hand in my mailbox and discovering a postcard from someone I love.

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

What makes me happy is making up with a colleague ! ( a little daily pleasure)

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

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

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.

Hearing someone whistle will always be for me, synonymous with happiness. Thans Papy.

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 !!!

Laughing and playing with my son and swimming in the ocean

When something wonderful appears in my life. Coincidences, signs, dreams which become reality with the impression that it's life which is organizing everything, lucid dreams.

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.

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

Lots of things make me happy : I bought an appartment, I slept with a girl and I stopped smoking !

Yesterday it rained, I went for a walk with Deal along the ocean, we took photos of each other, we kissed each other, we laughed, we warmed up in a pub, and we shared a chocolate cake and a cherry tea.

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.

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.

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

This is great !! The virus of happiness !! I'd like to give you my own definition of happiness... : “Happinees is like a butterfly. If you run after it, it will escape... But if you let it be, it will land softly on your shoulder...”

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

What makes me happy is freedom of thought and see how deep and creative and generous people can be when they are free.

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

What made me really happy? The first time my son smiled directly at me.

I like eating spaghetti and curly lettuce with some surimi, I like cuddles and playing with my friends, it makes me happy.

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

I am getting divorced, my husband prefers men, my 14-year-old daughter is pregnant, I am in love with a 22- year-old man who left for Mozambique, I am jobless, I am walking on air, Life is beautiful, I am alive ! Cool, isn't it ?

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.

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

What makes me happy ? The successful moments, the nice memories from my childhood.

What makes me happy, today, is seeing a magnificent carpet of dead leaves at the foot of a tree and hearing a bird singing on the bare tree.

My first contact with her, my hands on her marvelous body, our first heartfelt words, our first steps along the Rhine to exchange, a little timidly, our visions of the world

What makes me happy is eating calamari beignets in the university restaurant.

What warms my heart and makes me happy is when nothing relents, seeing that my ideas come back stronger and more definite.

The day when my son was born was a day full of happiness.

What makes me happy is to take out all my toys.

What makes me happy is to be pretty.

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

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

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.

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

What makes me happy is reading happython every morning in class. That puts me in a good mood for the rest of the day.