Wednesday afternoon, I visit my grand mother at the old folks home. Our walk in the park brings us closer. Seeing her smile and her joy makes me happy.

What makes me happy is the feeling of a smile!

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 the happiness of others surrounding me.

What makes me happy is having sponsored a little african, who comes from Burundi !

What has made me happy for 30 years is to live with an exceptional woman who is my wife, my friend, my confidante and my mistress all at the same time.

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

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 to be pretty.

What makes me happy is finally being myself in my own eyes and in the eyes of my loved ones.

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

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

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

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.

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

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).

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 spending time with my friends, going out with them, sharing my deepest thoughts with them and feeling their trust.

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 listening to Metallica while petting a kitten.

What makes me happy is seeing middle aged couples still walking together hand in hand.

My grandfather's eyes that sparkled whenever he saw me arrive. The wind that strokes my face, the sun that warms up the heart and finally, just feeling alive!

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 receiving a message that is proof of a pardon granted by a friend...maybe found again.

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

The day when my daughter Nouha was born, on July 4th, 2004 made me happy.

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

My children ‘s smiles make me happy.

What makes me happy : all the young people getting involved in the life of a new family…and those babies continuing life.

What makes me happy is to have left my parents' house.

What makes me happy is seeing that the head of a busy bar can stop working for two minutes because he saw a blind man trying desperately to walk across a crosswalk and help him cross arm in arm… that really make me happy to witness scenes like that ! Long live solidarity between people of all horizons !!

My happiness is eating my favorite meal: pureed sausage.

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

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

What makes me happy: to know that even far away, we can count on friends !

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

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

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

I'm happy every morning when my man snuggles up to me saying: “good morning, darling, I'm here next to you”. I shiver.

My relationship makes me very happy. I really have the impression that I create that every day. What allowed me to live this relationship, was when I started to respect myself and to listen to myself. Of course the other person senses that and naturally comes to you without effort. Afterwards the secret is not to tie the net, not to become a living prison, but on the contrary to open up the space with kind attention and love. Programme for a beautiful relationship: - Respect it – Listen to oneself (and the other too !) – Encourage light thoughts towards the other – Continue as if you were alone - Love the other person tenderly - Have fun together.

What makes me happy is to see happy sports people.

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 sharing my newspaper with a neighbor on the metro who reads it over my shoulder.

What makes me happy is seeing all the cherry trees blooming in Japan, and telling myself that nothing is more beautiful and nothing pleases us more than this langourous pink…

What makes me happy is to talk to people and to learn something from them.

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

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

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 when the supernatural gets revealed in my life. Coincidences, signs, dreams that come true with the impression that life organizes everything, lucid dreams.

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

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 seeing my daughters happy and in good health

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

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

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

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. »

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

Freedom makes me feel happy.

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.

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

What makes me happy : Luigi who brought me a chocolate egg, only for me !

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

The simplest feeling of happiness is to know that someone somewhere loves you.

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.

What makes me happy? Well, I've been married to the man I adore for 36 and we are going to celebrate our 30th marriage anniversary next October 28. We have two sons, 22 and 29 years old, I am surrounded by love. Each second of my life I find a little happiness.

What makes me happy is to be healthy.

My fall in the bus this afternoon because a good-looking boy gave me a smile and helped me to get up

What makes me happy is having sponsored a little african, who comes from Burundi !

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 learning that my parents are going to leave for a lover's weekend. After 23 years of marriage, isn't it still really cute?

What makes me happy, hmm... The first is waking up and seeing sunbeams... the second is payday... the third is my last day at work!

It's when a simple look is enough.

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…

After going on holidays alone, I come back home and I find my dog. It makes me happy.