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 !

What makes me happy is meeting passionate people. They always lend me an admiration like an imprint of their ardor, of their taste for life and love.

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

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 I find myself in the mountains again, simply in nature.

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

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

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.

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 seeing my girlfriend in the morning on the train tell me « until tonight, my love, » and then leave listening to Chuck Berry singing « Johnny B. Goode. »

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 is that it's raining today instead of a day when the weather's nice.

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 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.

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

Yesterday it rained, I strolled along the ocean, a photo was taken, a kiss, a laugh, warmed up again in a cafe, shared a chocolate cake and cherry tea.

What makes me happy is seeing my daughters happy and in good health

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.

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 thinking of the happy future waiting for me somewhere in the universe.

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

What makes me happy is that I'm in good health, I'm active, I've got good morals, and I rarely get angry!

What makes me happy is the existence of people on this earth who ask me what makes me happy.

What makes me happy is life in general  Lots of good things happen to me, like my three boys...

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

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

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

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 !

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

Life is at the base. I know well that there are ups and downs, it's like that, but there's the fun and that's what makes me happy.

What makes me happy is that when I walk in the street, my steps are exactly as long as the bands on the crosswalk. I feel like I'm in harmony with my environment

What makes me happy is freedom of thought and see how deep and creative and generous people can be when they are free.

What makes me happy is when my boyfriend tells me he loves me.

What makes me happy …To share a meal and an evening with friends.

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.

What makes me happy is doing a task that, I feel, fits with me and my personnality.

What makes me happy is girls.

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

My referee diploma made me happy.

Just to hear some good news on the radio.

The happiest day of my live was when I left the hole I was hidden in for a month during the war in Rwanda. That day, the sun shone like it will no longer and the breeze was a caress that no man has ever given me. It was June 21, 1994 around 3 :00 p.m. I was 14.

What makes me happy, even if it may look strange, it is when I drive to work in the morning.

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

All my travels.

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

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

What makes me happy is having being able to create and form a happy couple with children.

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

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 made me happy was leaving for Bordeaux.

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

What makes me happy is when you resuscitate a baby and suddenly hear his first cry of life tearing the silence of the room.

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

What makes me happy is to be healthy.

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

The soccer team makes me happy.

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 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 doing little things every day and realizing that those are what bring lots of happiness.

Yesterday it rained, I strolled along the ocean, a photo was taken, a kiss, a laugh, warmed up again in a cafe, shared a chocolate cake and cherry tea.

My children ‘s smiles make me happy.

What made me happy is that my best friend came with her boyfriend and offered me to go out to take my mind off things because I had just been chucked.

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

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

What makes me happy is to experiment with love.

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

What makes me happy is when my husband tells me “I love you more than my life!”

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.