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...

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

What makes me happy is the beauty of the sky.

feel like the Tibetan climbing the sacred mountain ! Happiness is not the end of the path, but happiness is the very path.

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 : 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 been able to get a job on my own.

What makes me happy is to believe in life, to believe in me.

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

The day when my son was born was a day full of happiness.

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

Tomorrow's day is already making me happy.

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

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? 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 have come study french, start to understand it and eat Korean meals.

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.

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…

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

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 am happy as soon as I get home from the office in the evening and see my child's smile.

What really makes me happiest is seeing happy people around me, and what makes my heart smile is sharing my happiness with others.

It's when a simple look is enough.

What makes me happy is knowing that laughing works your abs!

What makes me happy ? My dog !

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

What makes me happy now is to see the people who think of me.

What made me happy was to find out that I was pregnant with the child of the man of my life.

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 made me really happy? The first time my son smiled directly at me.

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 the shoo-shoobidoos, the waboo waboos and all the rest.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

What makes me happy is seeing my bunny thanks to the webcam.

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 made me happy was when I could walk again for the first time after my operation, when I had been paralyzed.

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

Love!

All my travels.

Having a cat makes me happy.

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.

My referee diploma made me happy.

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.

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

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).

So passionate, so tender, to hold me in your arms, kiss me gently and… tu make me fall on the bed ! You are so clumsy, my love, but how I love you, ooof ! I think about it in the metro, and I burst out laughing. I am happy.

Most importantly a woman in my life and then my studies that have made me the person I am now.

What makes me happy is when the people in the metro don't look just at their feet but at each other, and smile.

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

What makes me happy ? The successful moments, the nice memories from my childhood.

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.

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

What makes me happy is the idea that people would learn to love each other, without any feeling of racism. The world is everybody's…

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

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…

What makes me happy is to eat braised fish with my fingers, in the shade of a tree, in the Ivory Coast, and to watch the sunrise on Buttes Chaumont Park.

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

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

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

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 life... the simplicity of people... their joy of living and the smiles that surround me... I want to be happy with them like with myself... I want to live in the moment without ever forgetting the past that made me grow up so well.

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

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.

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 when my husband tells me “I love you more than my life!”

What makes me happy is being in an excellent mood and knowing how to share it with those around me.

What made me happy was leaving for Bordeaux.

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 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, it is in the morning when I wake up in my lover's arms and he kisses me lovingly