What makes me happy is seeing a smile erase the wrinkles on my husband's face.

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

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.

The thing that makes me happiest is someone's love and people's respect and the world smiling at me.

Love!

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

Cultivating my friendships is what makes 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...

What makes me happy ? The successful moments, the nice memories from my childhood.

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 be with a friend and with the kids.

What makes me happy is that I have found a bigger appartment that mine for the same price in the region where I am moving (a region where real estate is normally more expensive than in my region).

What makes my happy is that , currently, I only come across friendly people : the optician and her manager, the sales assistants of the sporting goods store ,of the hardware store and at the cultural goods (cds, dvds, books and video games) and craft arts stores , and the waiters and cashiers at the chinese restaurant).

Walking barefoot and feeling the sun under my feet.

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...

What makes me happy is thinking through the best moments I've lived to determine which one is the best and thus reliving them.

What makes me happy is that my annuual medical appointment with my cardiologist was OK, and that even if unfortunately, she leaves the region,, she has found a cardiologist specialized, like her, in congenital hearth disease (my disease), who works in the region where I am move in, whom she knows well, and promised me that he is friendly.

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 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.

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.

For you I am not merely a thing, my happiness is you, Pilou.

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

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

Giving birth to my two children made me happy.

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

What makes me happy is that my annuual medical appointment with my cardiologist was OK, and that even if unfortunately, she leaves the region,, she has found a cardiologist specialized, like her, in congenital hearth disease (my disease), who works in the region where I am move in, whom she knows well, and promised me that he is friendly.

It's when a simple look is enough.

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 to have left my parents' house.

What makes me happy? The sun, books, wine, when I have a good idea, a good conversation

What makes me happy is finding the right temperature of water in the shower right away… I hate cold showers…

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

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 that I have found a bigger appartment that mine for the same price in the region where I am moving (a region where real estate is normally more expensive than in my region).

What makes me happy ? The successful moments, the nice memories from my childhood.

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

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 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.

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 is the shivers I get when I hear a song that moves me.

What makes me happy is being able to hold onto my freedom that I can use again and again.

The simplest feeling of happiness is to know that someone somewhere loves you.

What makes me happy is the children's smile.

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

Smelling the scent of my children 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 receiving a message that is proof of a pardon granted by a friend...maybe found again.

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

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

I'm happy when I'm part of the happiness of the people around me.

Life and loving others makes me happy.

I am happy to have a large family and a girlfriend who shares my vision. I am happy to have a lucky star in my life professionally, financially, and for leisure, love and health.

This morning, while feeding my fish, the ingrates finally recognized me ! I was crazy with joy ! (laughs)

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

An evening between friends, with a little to drink of course. One of them accompanies you back to your taxi, one of the ones with whom you share the same complicity and sensitivity. And on a « goodbye » you steal a kiss from him, instead of an ordinary « see ya soon ». A kiss that lasts for a little while, a kiss he returns. The kind of kiss that makes you smile each time you think about it again and makes you happy.

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

Just now (apart from my wonderful family) the position of France, Germany, Russia, China and of course Belgium on the crisis in Irak, which shows there is some hope left. It gives me an immense happiness.

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

What makes me happy is listening to Metallica while petting a kitten.

What makes me happy is a cloudless sky.

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”.

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

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

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 made me happy...I'm going to be very original: the birth of my son! When they put him on my stomach and I saw his face for the first time.

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

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

Hugs!

What makes me happy is meeting passionate people. They always lend me an admiration like an imprint of their ardor, of their taste for life and love.

What makes me happy is the feeling of a smile!

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

What makes me happy is to be in Italy.