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

Most importantly a woman in my life and then my studies that have made me the person I am now.

The day when my daughter Nouha was born, on July 4th, 2004 made me happy.

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...

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.

What makes me happy is a genuine and simple friendship.

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.

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

What made me happy was my title of European champion of table tennins in all categories and my boyfriend.

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

What makes me happy is the surge of love that invades my heart in the most numb of her lyrics…

What made me happy was having found my Papa who I haven't seen for twenty-five years.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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 ? 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.

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 makes me happy is after washing my hands, to dry them in the hot air of the hand dryer. That marks a nice pause in my day.

What makes me happy ? To create.

What makes me happy is the happiness of others surrounding me.

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

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.

My fall in the bus this afternoon because a good-looking boy gave me a smile and helped me to get up

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

My little world makes me happy… I first of all have all my pets: Loulou, Fofinha, Nina, Cleo, Cesar, Micas they are my dogs who, I can assure you, are also very happy with 3400 feet of field and two little houses… My cats: Tigrao, Faisca, Princesa who have 4 little kittens Milady, Aramis, Dartanhan, Portos… My tortoises whose names are: César and Cléopâtre…. My birds in big cage…

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 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 made me happy was having found my Papa who I haven't seen for twenty-five years.

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 a smile erase the wrinkles on my husband's face.

So passionate, so tender, to hold me in your arms, kiss me gently and… tu make me fall on the bed ! You are so clumsy, my love, but how I love you, ooof ! I think about it in the metro, and I burst out laughing. I am happy.

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

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.

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

What makes me happy is to share my newspaper with somebody next to me in the tube that reads over my shoulder!

What makes me happy is seeing my girlfriend after two or three days when we haven't seen each other and she has a smile on her lips... That means we aren't going to confuse ourselves.

Financial independance gives me a peace of heart and a certain serenity and the fact of being loved comforts me. Loving a man and receiving love makes me forget my worries and brings me pleasure.

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.

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.

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 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 the shoo-shoobidoos, the waboo waboos and all the rest.

What made me happy was rowing with my father one night with a full moon, at 4 in the morning, in the Parana delta in Argentina.

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

What makes me happy is my man's love.

What makes me happy is telling myself every morning, while reading the Happython, that I am not the only one who thinks like this.

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

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 to take out all my toys.

What makes me happy is to have come study french, start to understand it and eat Korean meals.

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 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 !!

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 to be pretty.

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 is snakes and when my parents accepted to get one at home.

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.

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

A kind of happiness that will never pass away is giving birth to a child, it is the most beautiful happiness to my mind.

To travel to Europe to see my brother's son who was born the day before yesterday.

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

What makes me happy is wheever I go beach and watch the clouds.

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

What makes me happy is people who return my smiles and especially grannies, babies and good-looking

What makes me happy is to eat a chocolate filled pastry behind my archi (tecture) teacher's back!!!

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

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.