Happiness for me is to get miraculously cured of my disease.

My greatest happiness has been the birth of my two children! One boy one girl:

What makes me happy, you see, is that I live fully in the present moment. I savor each minute with pure delicacy, that's all!

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 is the children's smile.

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

The soccer team makes me happy.

One evening placed on his lower back, I thought about his little round body and I realized how happy I was to be a Daddy.

What makes me happy is when there is music on the streets or in the metro. It gives me the impression that the quick steps of hurried people are in rhythm on the tempo, like an urban choreography !

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

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.

I am happy when I do well in my studies.

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.

My success (academic with honors) makes me happy.

What makes me happy is to be pretty.

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

0n Saint Valentin's night I decided to make love with a 40-year-old man. I was his little princess, I desired him so much that I was afraid. I was trembling. He made love with me as none had ever done . On that night I saw the wolf : 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.

Oh… little everyday trifles make me happy … a smile, a hand in mine…a look, a laughing child…happiness is very relative…but we must know to appreciate the little things.

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

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

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

What makes me happy is being at the foot of a mountain or a hill and looking at the summit telling it « Soon !, », then marching on to sweat, breathe, suffer a little, climb up to that summit and tell yourself : « I did it. Thank you ». Just a challenge between you and nature. That's one of the most beautiful things in the world.

What makes me happy : Luigi who brought me a chocolate egg, only for me !

What makes me happy is to be sitting outside a café with nothing to do but let my mind wander (daydream), sip my drink and watch people walk by.

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

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

A particular moment in the summer of 2002 really made me happy. My father and I went fishing to the little river going near my childhood's village, in rocky canyons. He fishes with the hand since he was a little boy and this year I was also successful when I got a fish with my hand. The atmosphere and this moment of complicity both made me reach heaven.

What makes me happy ? The field of grapefruit in pink mornings.

Smelling the scent of my children makes me happy.

It's when a simple look is enough.

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

One of the things I like to do is ….don't laugh at me ! It is to take off the shell of hard-boiled eggs. I adore that and it makes me happy.

What made me happy was leaving for Bordeaux.

What makes me happy is that, despite all the world's problems, there are at least 20318 happy people.

What made me really happy? The first time my son smiled directly at me.

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 spending time with my friends, going out with them, sharing my deepest thoughts with them and feeling their trust.

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.

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 most happy is when I see happy people. That's the reason why I try to make people happy. Sometimes a simple smile is enough…Fortunately there's a universal language that everybody can communicate with: the “language of the heart”.

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

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

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

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

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 !

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.

To feel loved by my surroundings and to be able to return that love makes me happy.

What made me happy is an angel on the web who gave me a lot of happiness and love and I can't forget…

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...

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 are my kids' smiles in the morning.

What makes me happy : walking with your eyes closed to feel the natural elements.

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

What makes me happy, you see, is that I live fully in the present moment. I savor each minute with pure delicacy, that's all!

Love!

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 is eating calamari beignets in the university restaurant.

The idea of finding the love of my life makes me happy.

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

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

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

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

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.

What makes me happy is the idea of not waking up early in the morning, not taking the bus to school, not working, because studying too much can kill, but I do it anyway, I'm still 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.

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.

Freedom makes me feel happy.

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 learning that my parents are going to leave for a lover's weekend. After 23 years of marriage, isn't it still really cute?

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

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.