To take the time to eat in a fine restaurant in Marseille and to savour the different meals…

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

I am happy when I travel around the world and get to know different possible ways of being 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 to see this little twig of a woman who is my mother smile and laugh, each time it's…

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.

To feel the blending of warmth and cool in a summer evening, to drink a cool beer, to eat spiced olives, to hear my friends laugh, for me, that is happiness (in summer).

What makes me happy is a cloudless sky.

My happiness is eating my favorite meal: pureed sausage.

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

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

What makes me happy is telling myself that there are places where everything is simple and less heavy than this place, and that can be here if I want it to be.

What makes me happy is the shoo-shoobidoos, the waboo waboos and all the rest.

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 freedom of thought and see how deep and creative and generous people can be when they are free.

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.

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!!!

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 stop and enjoy a few quiet moments in my very busy life, so I can think of the distance covered, trials, moments of joy, and then I think that life is great!

The idea of finding the love of my life makes me happy.

What makes me happy is making bread : to knead it, arrange the dough, cook it in my oven, and smell the aroma of fresh bread.

What makes me happy is to be sitting outside a café with nothing to do but let my mind wander (daydream), sip my drink and watch people walk by.

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

What makes me happy is that my three and a half year old son gets angry if someone wants to smush an insect or when he asks us to be quiet to not scare a bird.

What makes me happy is the existence of people on this earth who ask me what makes me happy.

What makes me happy is sharing my newspaper with a neighbor on the metro who reads it over my shoulder.

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 ? The field of grapefruit in pink mornings.

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 to be healthy.

What makes me happy is all that is beautiful, pure, frank and honest and that doesn't cost anything because these are the simplest things that are the most wonderful.

I'm against peoples' oppression and I want them to be free, so I am happy when there is justice on earth,…

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 made me happy is when I was offered a chimpanzee, which was my dearest dream.

To take the time to eat in a fine restaurant in Marseille and to savour the different meals…

As far as I'm concerned, what made me happy was to meet this great guy who I really love a lot.

What makes me happy is a genuine and simple friendship.

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...

Smelling the scent of my children makes me happy.

Hearing that a friend is expecting a baby makes me happy.

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 that, though I am agoraphobic, I have made a great friend Pascale thanks to Internet, and I thank her for having friendly feelings for me.

My happiness is complete when I let the metro pass to keep kissing my love on the latform...telling myself that I'll take it maybe the next day or the day after that.

It's to seat down at Cais Do Sodré and look at my country.

What makes me happy is finding the right temperature of water in the shower right away… I hate cold showers…

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

For a very long time I have wanted to play a musical instrument while avoiding the forbidding aspect of learning the solfeggio. By some wonderful chance, I saw a photo of a man. Playing the tampoura in the desert, the flash !

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 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 that each and every day, I live…

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

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

What makes me happy is the first kiss in a love affair…The first craziest moments…

What makes me happy is the beauty of the sky.

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

What makes me happy is when my husband tells me “I love you more than my life!”

My happiness has already lasted for a long time. It renews itself every morning when I go to sample a cup of tea in one of the many Parisian cafés. It's a moment of pure joy, I let myself lapse into dreams in the ambiance of the cafes, and I can no longer do without it.

I am learning to develop my ability to « not define » life, to melt into it rather than dominate it… and by so doing… I learn to love… and the more I love… the happier I am every day!

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

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

What makes me the happiest is to see the people I love happy.

The purchase of a house in the country made me happy. It gave me a goal.

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 !!

Freedom makes me feel happy.

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 to listen to Danièle's music, dance the tarentelle and tammurriata and sing with my friends (especially napolitean songs).

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

What makes me happy is leaving work on Friday afternoon and walking in Bordeaux for an hour savoring each minute of the beginning of my weekend !

What makes me happiest is laughing, with time, over things I've cried a lot about. That's how I finally tell myself that life is too beautiful but it's us who often see the world in black.

A moment of happiness: the kiss from this little girl who thanked me for having cured her mommy. What made me happy yesterday was passing the evening with the man I love, dancing all night with him and showing him that his black skin and my white skin show at the same time both contrast and harmony.

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 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!

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

Well, what made me happy lately was the surprise to be invited by my friend in a smart restaurant very close by my home where I had wanted to go for a long time but I had not enough money!