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 !!!

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 makes me happy : Luigi who plays the guitar !

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

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.

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 people in the metro don't look just at their feet but at each other, and smile.

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 ?

What makes me happy is falling in lovein the metro every morning ! Stranger from line 6, if you recognize yourself…

Someone who is able to listen to you, to have a discussion with you. Also to be able to open your heart to someone who knows about human qualities.

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

What makes me happy is a cloudless sky.

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 have a cat.

What makes me happy is that everybody is fine.

What makes me happiest is all the little daily pleasures... Why search so hard, look what we have near

I love to feel that boundaries don't exist here, smiles are the same everywhere, they can be exchanged in every language… that makes me happy.

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 is being in an excellent mood and knowing how to share it with those around me.

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

I'm happy every morning when my man snuggles up to me saying: “good morning, darling, I'm here next to you”. I shiver.

To see my rabbit smiles thanks to the web cam on the net (!).

Freedom makes me feel 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 has made me happy for 30 years is to live with an exceptional woman who is my wife, my friend, my confidante and my mistress all at the same time.

Happiness now is to feel I am starting afresh, even if I am alone, and to rely on the support of faithful friends and my granddaughter born 5 months ago, that is a dream and a revival in my life.

What makes me happy is getting a love letter meant for someone else... and getting a love letter really meant for me!

What makes me happy: to know that even far away, we can count on friends !

It's to seat down at Cais Do Sodré and look at my country.

I found a job after a long laborious search and that made me happy.

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 seeing my sweetie smile while reading the Happython each day.

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.

The fact that I've met my soul mate makes me happy.

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 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 that, though I am agoraphobic, I have made a great friend Pascale thanks to Internet, and I thank her for having friendly feelings for me.

What makes me happy is a genuine and simple friendship.

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 does make me happy is to watch the waves lapping on the fine sand

What makes me happy is knowing that laughing works your abs!

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

lived my greatest happiness after having gone through a period of depression. I walk outside and I kneeled before the color of the starry sky and I told myself: God it's beautiful!

Life and loving others makes me happy.

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 to live without any worries.

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

What makes me happy is getting online at noon each day on one of the computers at med school with Celine and Arthur to leave messages on Happython !

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

What made me happy was seeing that people haven't yet forgotten Ingrid Bettancourt and her thousand-day-detention, November 19, 2004.

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

What fills me with joy is simply that a smile from me can make my companion happy and make him smile too.

What makes me happy ? To be a granny, nothing is more beautiful than to see your family grow larger and be able to play the doting mother again. It makes you feel young again.

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

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.

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.

What makes me happy are those lives I dream of and those dreams I live in.

The day I passed my driving license I was really happy because I had always thought I was useless

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.

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 returning home, soaked, during a storm and hearing the rain beating against the windowpanes while I heat up tea!

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

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

What makes me happy is to be with a friend and with the kids.

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

Surprising my brother and seeing the happiness on his face, that's enough to make me happy.

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

The smile of a child after an X-ray treatment… A baby holding out his hand… All that makes me happy!!

To see my baby's birth.

What makes me happy is to talk to people and to learn something from them.

What makes me happy is to have been able to get a good education « educazione » !

What makes me happy is seeing the popcorn head of my love waking up.

I am happy when I can make a date with a very good-looking girl.

What makes me happy is to take out all my toys.

What makes me happy is thinking about what's going to make me happy later. When I get my car, a job I like, so that I can fulfill my passion and live with the woman I love and who loves me too. My happiness is living free.