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

My success (academic with honors) makes me happy.

Happiness for me is to get miraculously cured of my disease.

I love to feel that boundaries don't exist here, smiles are the same everywhere, they can be exchanged in every language… that makes me happy.

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

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

What makes me happy is listening to Metallica while petting a kitten.

What made me happy was having found my Papa who I haven't seen for twenty-five years.

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

What makes me happy is seeing my reflection in the eyes of my son.

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.

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

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 makes me happy is little everyday moments like for example : sitting on the edge of a lake and contemplating nature, horsebackriding in the woods, among other examples.

What makes me happy is to see this little twig of a woman who is my mother smile and laugh, each time it's…

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

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.

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

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

What makes me happy? My new life with the man of my life hihihi !

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

What makes me happy is finally getting to use the internet !

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.

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.

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

A wet spring evening simply makes me happy.

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!

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

What makes me happy is to get up in the morning and thank God for letting me sleep in peace.

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

What makes me happy is being at the foot of a mountain or a hill and looking at the summit telling it « Soon !, », then marching on to sweat, breathe, suffer a little, climb up to that summit and tell yourself : « I did it. Thank you ». Just a challenge between you and nature. That's one of the most beautiful things in the world.

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

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.

My job!

I am happy when I am loved for what I am.

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.

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

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

Walking barefoot and feeling the sun under my feet.

What makes me happy is to see happy sports people.

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 when my boyfriend tells me he loves 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 !

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 that I have found a bigger appartment that mine for the same price in the region where I am moving (a region where real estate is normally more expensive than in my region).

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

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

What makes me happy is seeing my best friend again after almost two years apart.

What makes me happy is to be desired.

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

Laughing and playing with my son and swimming in the ocean

What makes me happy are those lives I dream of and those dreams I live in.

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

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 to get up in the morning and think that I'm still there despite the past difficulties.

What makes me happy, you see, is that I live fully in the present moment. I savor each minute with pure delicacy, that's all!

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

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

What makes me happy is seeing my parents together.

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 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 !

Hugs!

What made me happy was my title of European champion of table tennins in all categories and my boyfriend.

What makes me happy is the children's smile.

What makes me happy is that when I walk in the street, my steps are exactly as long as the bands on the crosswalk. I feel like I'm in harmony with my environment

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 to see the smile of people I like and the sunset. It's to hear the voices melody and children laughing. It's to smell flowers perfume and that of hot coffee. It's to feel under my fingers the softness of the skin and the grains of a fine sand beach…

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

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.

I no longer remember exactly when, But it was approximately in 1996 that I decided to “do something with Internet” It took me until April 1997 to get together the equipment, the connections and the supplies, but then bang, I saw photos of people far away appearing before my eyes, with immediacy of connection and of memory. Wow. For each question I had to do with actual things, ideas or sources of ideas, or how to do something, etc. etc. I could find the reply in a few minutes, and that's when I realised: One doesn't need to know how to reach one's goal before one has decided it - simply dream it and the answers to how you can succeed are on Internet – even if you wish to work towards an enlightened planetary civilisation…

My most beautiful moment of happiness was when my love, Nuno Filipe, had prepared for me the most beautiful Valentine's day…. We went to the highest place in the region. Without me noticing anything, he took out two crystal glasses of champaign and a red roses bunch where there was a little note: with lots of love. And the best: a ring, a solitaire and the most important, lots of love…

Cultivating my friendships is what makes me happy.