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 are those lives I dream of and those dreams I live in.

Seeing my son find his taste for life again makes me really happy !

What makes me happy is seeing a smile erase the wrinkles on my husband's face.

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

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 to go to the cinema with a girl who really appeals to me.

What makes me happy is a genuine and simple friendship.

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

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

I am happy when I can make a date with a very good-looking girl.

What makes me happy is to read Happython in Metro newspaper with my beloved chums every day.

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 made me happy: Over, my first boyfriend at school, which I'll never forget.

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

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

What makes me happy is writing a message to Happython and knowing that one day, maybe, my testimony with help spread the virus of happiness.

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 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 are my kids' smiles in the morning.

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 to think every morning when I read the happython, that I'm not the only one to think that way

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

Nothing makes me happier than to create something with my own hands, to prepare some tempting meal that we can all share together later, or to sew cushions myself. There is a magic in creating, making, concocting something with ones own hands. It is a proof that our hands are just an extension of our thoughts.

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 am most happy when people thank me for holding the door for them on the metro. I leave with a lively step to the RER A.

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

What makes me happy is the sunset above the sea.

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

My job!

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

What makes me happiest is all the little daily pleasures... Why search so hard, look what we have near

I found a job after a long laborious search and that made me happy.

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

Happiness is in my nature, I always say that the sun is shining in my head. What makes me happy is loving life and every day there's always the same intensity inside me.

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

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!

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.

My happiness is eating my favorite meal: pureed sausage.

What makes me happy is to see the others happy, my dearest, my friends, all the people I like.

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

What makes me happy is reading every little bit of joy in my children's eyes.

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!

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 happy is seeing my bunny thanks to the webcam.

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 !

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

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

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 seeing all the different colors and ethnicities in the metro when I run errands in the morning…

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!!!

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...

Just to hear some good news on the radio.

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

What makes me happiest is the love of my future husband who, despite leukemia, helps me to get through life.

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

What made me happy was to meet, totally by chance, the man who is now my husband. Thanks to fate, every day is a happy day.

Surprising a little sparrow while he's taking a bath in a puddle of water, that's what makes me really happy.

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

What makes me wild with happiness is to think that I get life ahead of me to make all my dreams come true, to meet ‘the' woman willing to offer me some kids, to see my babies grow, to make a contribution to tolerance for everyone, and mostly do my best not to wake up one day and think that I have made a mess of my life…

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

What makes me happy is telling myself that, whatever happens, if we separate or find each other again, whatever time passes, no one will be able to erase our most cherished memories.

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 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).

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

What makes me happy : family meetings, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren…

What makes me happy is seeing a smile erase the wrinkles on my husband's face.

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

Walking barefoot and feeling the sun under my feet.

What makes me happy is getting up on Sundays to prepare breakfast and going back to my bedroom to find my man rolled up in the blanket, like a spring roll.

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!

To see my baby's birth.

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

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

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.