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.

Wednesday afternoon, I visit my grand mother at the old folks home. Our walk in the park brings us closer. Seeing her smile and her joy makes me happy.

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

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

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

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 makes me happy is to know that I am the artist of my life ! Happiness exists provided I really want.

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

I am learning to develop my ability to « not define » life, to melt into it rather than dominate it… and by so doing… I learn to love… and the more I love… the happier I am every day!

What makes me happy is finally getting to use the internet !

What made me happy was to find out that I was pregnant with the child of the man of my life.

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

Having brought to light a vocation. My son was studying Sociology and Economic Sciences at the University of Jussieu. One summer I forced him to work in a hospital to earn some pocket money. He dropped his studies to study at the I.F.S.I. (Nurses Training School) Today, at 25 he is happy, his job is a true vocation. His patients are happy and me too, I'm happy

To know that there's at least one person on earth who loves me for who I am, who shares my sad and happy moments and who never gets fed up saying “I love you”.

Seeing my son find his taste for life again makes me really happy !

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

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”.

Happiness is in my nature, I always say that the sun is shining in my head. What makes me happy is loving life and every day there's always the same intensity inside me.

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

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

What makes me happy is to see that people can work together to overcome difficulty.

What makes me happy is that I've found my ideal girl.

What makes me happy is all that is beautiful, pure, frank and honest and that doesn't cost anything because these are the simplest things that are the most wonderful.

What warms my heart and makes me happy is when nothing relents, seeing that my ideas come back stronger and more definite.

What makes me happy is getting up on Sundays to prepare breakfast and going back to my bedroom to find my man rolled up in the blanket, like a spring roll.

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

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.

When something wonderful appears in my life. Coincidences, signs, dreams which become reality with the impression that it's life which is organizing everything, lucid dreams.

Happy to hear you smile...

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.

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.

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

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

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

What makes me happy is to be with my friends with a friend called Sasi, and also Fiore and Dolores.

What makes me happy, a great privelege in my heart, when my little 4-year-old friend, Joey, takes my hand, taking this gesture of love from this child who moves me, but completely... I become gaga with...

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

What makes me happy is to skid and slide in front of the tobacco shop !

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: to know that even far away, we can count on friends !

What made me happy ? After loving lots of men, I fell in love with a woman and for that wonderful love, I gave up men and my former way of life. But it is worth while, I love and I am loved, peaceful and completely happy, that great affection…

What make me happy are the moments when my son has a great time playing basketball, and flawlessly.

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

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

What made me happy : learn that Caro and Math are excepting a baby !

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

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

To be happy, I need calm and tranquillity, to be loved and love, sunshine and perfect happiness ( a little water, some fruit, my garden on my island) and peace in the world.

All my travels.

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 the first kiss in a love affair…The first craziest moments…

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

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.

I like eating spaghetti and curly lettuce with some surimi, I like cuddles and playing with my friends, it makes me happy.

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

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

I was never as happy as I was two days ago when, opening the small package my love had nervously given to me, I discovered a pair of tiny shoes. I then understood that we were going to have a baby.

What makes me happy is living the life I've always wanted to live.

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 job!

What makes me happy, hmm... The first is waking up and seeing sunbeams... the second is payday... the third is my last day at work!

When he holds me in his arms, my head goes “pssshit.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

My grandfather's eyes that sparkled whenever he saw me arrive. The wind that strokes my face, the sun that warms up the heart and finally, just feeling alive!