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

What makes me happy is thinking through the best moments I've lived to determine which one is the best and thus reliving them.

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.

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 seeing my girlfriend in the morning on the train tell me « until tonight, my love, » and then leave listening to Chuck Berry singing « Johnny B. Goode. »

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.

Giving birth to my two children made me happy.

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 staying in contact with my old friends and making new friends.

What makes me happy is that my scientific experiments are progressing.

The fact that I've met my soul mate makes me happy.

What makes me happy is to be in Italy.

What makes me happy is reading every little bit of joy in my children's eyes.

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.

The thing that makes me happiest is someone's love and people's respect and the world smiling at me.

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

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

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 finally being able to walk, because I was in a wheelchair.

Happy to hear you smile...

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

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

What makes me happy is seeing her in the morning, brushing her teeth in her robe, her gaze far away. I look at her, and our eyes meet.

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

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.

What makes me happy ? The field of grapefruit in pink mornings.

What makes me happy is to live without any worries.

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 finally being myself in my own eyes and in the eyes of my loved ones.

What makes me feel really happy is to be free to act, speak and realise my dreams.

I thought it was only possible to die from sadness. But one day I nearly died from happiness when the man I had always loved from afar, but only ever hoped to talk to, came and talked to me. It was the most beautiful day of my life.

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

What makes me happy is that my scientific experiments are progressing.

My children ‘s smiles make me happy.

I am happy when I travel around the world and get to know different possible ways of being happy.

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

Love!

A child's spinning top on the carpet. What a pleasure to approach it, having watched it from afar, the memories coming back of those exquisite moments where colours mingled and filled rainbow eyes. I lean over, touch the top and play with it and that simple pleasure warms my heart, it turns, turns, turns...

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!

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

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 staying in contact with my old friends and making new friends.

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

It's when a simple look is enough.

What makes me happy is to be pretty.

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

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

What makes me happy is chatting with my aunt on the internet and seeing her smile thanks to the webcam.

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

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.

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

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 the day when my mother told me that she was happy to have a daughter like me.

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 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.

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

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…

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

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.

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

I am happy because I found my P50 motorcycle that I had lost.

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.

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 to see his first name show up on my cell phone when at the same moment I'm thinking of him.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

What makes me happy is getting up in the morning, stretching out on my sofa and letting the sun warms my bare feet through the window.

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 thinking of the happy future waiting for me somewhere in the universe.

What makes me happy is when there is music on the streets or in the metro. It gives me the impression that the quick steps of hurried people are in rhythm on the tempo, like an urban choreography !