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.

Whenever I start to really like a person, I look at them straight in the eyes and I tell them that I love them (which is always true) : the glint that I see shine in their eyes, sometimes only for a fraction of a second, fills me with joy, and I am happy.

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 reading every little bit of joy in my children's eyes.

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.

What makes me happy is to live without any worries.

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 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.

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

What makes me happy is my little 80-year-old mother, who is chock full of joyful projects : she's going to move into a new appartment.

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

What made me happy is an angel on the web who gave me a lot of happiness and love and I can't forget…

What makes me happy is to have a special moment with my friends over an aperitif putting the world to rights.

Up until now nothing that I have accomplished or created in my life is worth mentioning compared to that freedom I have acquired through the fact of doing nothing to accomplish, change or improve anything in the world, including myself

Happiness now is to feel I am starting afresh, even if I am alone, and to rely on the support of faithful friends and my granddaughter born 5 months ago, that is a dream and a revival in my life.

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

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 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.

What makes me happy is to eat everyday with my friends, each bite is for me a breath of life.

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.

Surprising my brother and seeing the happiness on his face, that's enough to make me happy.

What makes me happy, a great privelege in my heart, when my little 4-year-old friend, Joey, takes my hand, taking this gesture of love from this child who moves me, but completely... I become gaga with...

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

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

I'm in college prep, and what makes me happy is that my scores went from 2 over 20 to 4 over 20. I tell myself then, that now I see the fruits of my labors.

What makes me happy is to have a special moment with my friends over an aperitif putting the world to rights.

What makes me happy is seeing my sweetie smile while reading the Happython each day.

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 being able to hold onto my freedom that I can use again and again.

What made me happy : learn that Caro and Math are excepting a baby !

What makes me happy is thinking that I've succeeded in getting out of many decades of abuse by myself. Others will succeed as well.

See and have the sun when I get up in the morning!

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

What makes me happy is when my neighbour kindly offers me « tourtisseaux » to thank me for a small favour.

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 that everybody is fine.

What makes me happy is really knowing that one day I'll have enough power to spread love and happiness.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

To see my baby's birth.

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 the ability I have to express myself in any languages, even if that is not the spoken language, but by gestures or feelings.

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

What makes me happy is reading or writing to my loved ones. It's knowing that I am there for them and that they're there for me.

My job!

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 ?

What makes me happy is being with my family, spending time together, feeling all of their love, expressing how I feel, telling them, showing them.

For you I am not merely a thing, my happiness is you, Pilou.

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.

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

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 the first kiss in a love affair…The first craziest moments…

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

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.

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

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 the happiest is to see the people I love happy.

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!

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

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

Giving birth to my two children made me happy.

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, it is to crochet fine mats and advise some people how to do crochet and knitting.

What makes me happy is nature. Walking in the grass or on a beach, lying in fields, watching the sunset, picking wild leeks to make an omelette with them.

What makes me the most happy is the love of my future husband who, despite leukemia, helps me to overcome all in life.

What made me happy was leaving for Bordeaux.

Life and loving others makes me happy.

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

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…