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 seeing my reflection in the eyes of my son.

Just to hear some good news on the radio.

This morning, while feeding my fish, the ingrates finally recognized me ! I was crazy with joy ! (laughs)

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

What made me happy was to make a break in my job in order not to work any longer, to decide to care about myself and now to give priority to my happiness.

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

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

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

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 to see animals.

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.

I'm a naturally happy person because I've learnt to see only the nice and positive side of what happens.

What makes me happy is a state of mind and spiritual conscience.

The day I decided to take myself by the hand again (I was quite depressed) made it so that, during this time, life itself made me happy...

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.

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 a genuine and simple friendship.

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.

Having a cat makes me happy.

What makes me happy ? My dog !

My five year old daughter told me : « Mommy, when you die, I will take all my treasures and I will give them to you when you return as a little baby. » That day, I felt a great surge of happiness

What makes me happy every day, it is to see black slaves'sons and daughters appointed to fairly important positions, in a country where there were schools for Whites and schools for Blacks, buses for Whites and buses for Blacks, just very few decades ago.

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 made me happy was seeing whales in the distance spitting water, indifferent to the spectators sitting around a fire on this Zipolite beach.

What makes me happy is a cloudless sky.

What makes me happy is to have the possibility to organize a great party with all the family where my brother could come with his children.

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

What makes me happy is that people read the little Happython phrases that I cut out of the newspaper and paste on the walls in my bathrooms. Even Charlotte, who is preschool, sometimes takes more than twenty minutes.

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

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 ?

I'm a naturally happy person because I've learnt to see only the nice and positive side of what happens.

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

It's my children that make me happy : my son Samuel, who is 1, and my daughter Mélissa-Jade, who is 14, they are the most precious things I have on Earth.

Smelling the aroma of the pizza that's baking in my oven and thinking that I'm going treat myself !

To see my baby's birth.

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

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 able to walk, because I was in a wheelchair.

Each morning on my way to work, I read the newspaper and I hurry up to read the Happython. Often I find myself in what was said. Today, it's my turn. What makes me happy is going to bed early and waking up late when I don't have to work.

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 to see that people can work together to overcome difficulty.

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

What makes me happy is having discovered Happython planet ! and sharing my happiness with others. I have hope for the best days.

Having brought to light a vocation. My son was studying Sociology and Economic Sciences at the University of Jussieu. One summer I forced him to work in a hospital to earn some pocket money. He dropped his studies to study at the I.F.S.I. (Nurses Training School) Today, at 25 he is happy, his job is a true vocation. His patients are happy and me too, I'm happy

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 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 made me happy was when I played my first notes on the guitar a few months ago. So far I believed music was not for me.

What makes me happy is being a great-great grandfather.

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.

What makes me happy is staying in contact with my old friends and making new friends.

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 is seeing the face of Kalé, my coworker, light up when I make him read the last Happython

What makes me happy is chatting with my aunt on the internet and seeing her smile thanks to the webcam.

To be happy, I need calm and tranquillity, to be loved and love, sunshine and perfect happiness ( a little water, some fruit, my garden on my island) and peace in the world.

What makes me happy is the generosity of people who support Florence Aubenas and Hussein Hanoun. Finally solidarity doesn't end.

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.

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

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

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 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.

Getting married to someone I love. A nice trip with my family. Having a good job!

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

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.

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.

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 sunset above the sea.

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

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

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

Cultivating my friendships is what makes me happy.

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.

I thought it was only possible to die from sadness. But one day I nearly died from happiness when the man I had always loved from afar, but only ever hoped to talk to, came and talked to me. It was the most beautiful day of my life.