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

Laughing and playing with my son and swimming in the ocean

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.

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.

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

What makes me happy is that my annuual medical appointment with my cardiologist was OK, and that even if unfortunately, she leaves the region,, she has found a cardiologist specialized, like her, in congenital hearth disease (my disease), who works in the region where I am move in, whom she knows well, and promised me that he is friendly.

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.

0n Saint Valentin's night I decided to make love with a 40-year-old man. I was his little princess, I desired him so much that I was afraid. I was trembling. He made love with me as none had ever done . On that night I saw the wolf : happy.

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

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 knowing that laughing works your abs!

When I left alone to experience giving up everything, I had the impression that I was happy.

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

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

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

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 when in the dreams' fall when the breath of the day raises my eyelids, I'm aware that the moment when finally I'll be free is close. Every minute, every second that goes by is a step towards our reunion, my darling, my Night, my life.

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

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

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.

Someone who is able to listen to you, to have a discussion with you. Also to be able to open your heart to someone who knows about human qualities.

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

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!

What made me happy was being born into softness, joy and love, and knowing that when I open my door, all of it spreads out to the entire world.

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

My success (academic with honors) makes me happy.

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

Laughing and playing with my son and swimming in the ocean

What makes me happy is to see his first name show up on my cell phone when at the same moment I'm thinking of him.

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

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

Giving birth to my two children made me happy.

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

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.

What makes me happy is running with people who are going to miss their train: not because I want to catch the train, but just for the pleasure of running and being out of breath...

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

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 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.

What makes me happy is finally being able to walk, because I was in a wheelchair.

What made me happy, a waterfall.

To know that there's at least one person on earth who loves me for who I am, who shares my sad and happy moments and who never gets fed up saying “I love you”.

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

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

Lots of things make me happy : I bought an appartment, I slept with a girl and I stopped smoking !

I met a person in the metro that made me smile…for no reason and that made me 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, hmm... The first is waking up and seeing sunbeams... the second is payday... the third is my last day at work!

What makes me happy!!! Well, I'm only 17 years old, so my happiness is far from complete, but I'll say that what makes me happy is seeing people smile.

What makes me happy is a genuine and simple friendship.

It's when a simple look is enough.

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

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.

My referee diploma made me happy.

What makes me happy is to read every morning the Happython when I'm in class. It puts me in a good mood for all the day.

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…

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

What makes me happy is my calm spirit

What makes me happy ? Sitting between others, while I feel a little wind on my face and watch the sunset.

To see my baby's birth.

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.

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

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

What made me happy ? After loving lots of men, I fell in love with a woman and for that wonderful love, I gave up men and my former way of life. But it is worth while, I love and I am loved, peaceful and completely happy, that great affection…

What makes me happy is to have been able to get a job on my own.

What makes me happy is seeing my love, who lives in Toulouse, very soon.

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

Having a cat makes me happy.

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

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, despite all the world's problems, there are at least 20318 happy people.

Love!