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.

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

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.

Yesterday at work, I thought myself the black beast and eight girls offered me chocolate. I live in Japan, and, here, it's the women who offer chocolate to men. My day had started very badly, and finished very well…

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 makes me happy is when I find myself in the mountains again, simply in nature.

What makes me happy is the day when my mother told me that she was happy to have a daughter like me.

My success (academic with honors) makes me happy.

What makes me happy is making bread : to knead it, arrange the dough, cook it in my oven, and smell the aroma of fresh bread.

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 be loved by the man of my life, a loving Canadian that fate put on my way.

What makes me happy is little everyday moments like for example : sitting on the edge of a lake and contemplating nature, horsebackriding in the woods, among other examples.

What made me happy is when my boyfriend proposed to me, but also when the Americans demonstrated against war in Irak.

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

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

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.

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.

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

What makes me happy, today, is seeing a magnificent carpet of dead leaves at the foot of a tree and hearing a bird singing on the bare tree.

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.

After going on holidays alone, I come back home and I find my dog. It makes 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.

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 makes me happy? My new life with the man of my life hihihi !

What makes me happy is when I find myself in the mountains again, simply in nature.

What makes me happy is holding one of the metro's double doors, while exchanging a smile, and vice-versa.

The idea of finding the love of my life makes 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.

What makes me happy is seeing that the head of a busy bar can stop working for two minutes because he saw a blind man trying desperately to walk across a crosswalk and help him cross arm in arm… that really make me happy to witness scenes like that ! Long live solidarity between people of all horizons !!

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 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 makes me happy, it is to crochet fine mats and advise some people how to do crochet and knitting.

My faith in God makes me feel happy.

I no longer remember exactly when, But it was approximately in 1996 that I decided to “do something with Internet” It took me until April 1997 to get together the equipment, the connections and the supplies, but then bang, I saw photos of people far away appearing before my eyes, with immediacy of connection and of memory. Wow. For each question I had to do with actual things, ideas or sources of ideas, or how to do something, etc. etc. I could find the reply in a few minutes, and that's when I realised: One doesn't need to know how to reach one's goal before one has decided it - simply dream it and the answers to how you can succeed are on Internet – even if you wish to work towards an enlightened planetary civilisation…

What makes me happy ? Scouting when I was young, then my commitment to a trade-union and a political party, my family – children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and hearing that my great-grandson Guillaume will soon be christened.

Happiness was when my adoptive brother and sister found their biological mother and also the 26th of August when I knew that I was cured of my cancer.

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

To eat chips makes me happy

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

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 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.

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.

Having a cat makes me happy.

What makes me happiest is laughing, with time, over things I've cried a lot about. That's how I finally tell myself that life is too beautiful but it's us who often see the world in black.

What makes me happy is doing little things every day and realizing that those are what bring lots of happiness.

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.

What makes me happy is getting up in the morning, stretching out on my sofa and letting the sun warms my bare feet through the window.

What makes me happy are my kids' smiles in the morning.

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

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

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.

Walking barefoot and feeling the sun under my feet.

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 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 freedom of thought and see how deep and creative and generous people can be when they are free.

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

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!!!

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 to listen to Danièle's music, dance the tarentelle and tammurriata and sing with my friends (especially napolitean songs).

What made me happy ? It is probably slight …I met a totally exceptional man on a chat one year and ten days ago (de visu).

What makes me happy is to be loved by the man of my life, a loving Canadian that fate put on my way.

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

What makes me happy is to have a cat.

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

I'm happy when I travel !

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

What makes me happy is telling myself that I am going to see the man of my dreams on my right during my classes.

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

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

I am happy when I do well in my studies.

What makes me happy is when I have the giggles and when I laugh so much so that I have a stomachache… I feel so well after shading tears of laughter.

What made me happy is when I was offered a chimpanzee, which was my dearest dream.

What makes me happy is to dream and imagine things about battles and love.