The happiest day of my live was when I left the hole I was hidden in for a month during the war in Rwanda. That day, the sun shone like it will no longer and the breeze was a caress that no man has ever given me. It was June 21, 1994 around 3 :00 p.m. I was 14.

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

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

What makes me happy is getting back home after a long day at college, putting my hand in my mailbox and discovering a postcard from someone I love.

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.

I thought it was only possible to die from sadness. But one day I nearly died from happiness when the man I had always loved from afar, but only ever hoped to talk to, came and talked to me. It was the most beautiful day of my life.

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

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

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

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

I'm against peoples' oppression and I want them to be free, so I am happy when there is justice on earth,…

Happiness was when my adoptive brother and sister found their biological mother and also the 26th of August when I knew that I was cured of my cancer.

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 being a great-great grandfather.

What makes me happy is when my boyfriend tells me he loves me.

What makes me happy is when in the dreams' fall when the breath of the day raises my eyelids, I'm aware that the moment when finally I'll be free is close. Every minute, every second that goes by is a step towards our reunion, my darling, my Night, my life.

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

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.

To see my baby's birth.

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.

My referee diploma made 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…

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

What makes me happy …To share a meal and an evening with friends.

What makes me happy is having sponsored a little african, who comes from Burundi !

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

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 a cloudless sky.

What makes me happy is a warm day with the wind and the blue sky of spring… A day like today.

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

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

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

What made me happy ? It is probably slight …I met a totally exceptional man on a chat one year and ten days ago (de visu).

The day when my son was born was a day full of happiness.

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 when I walk in the street, my steps are exactly as long as the bands on the crosswalk. I feel like I'm in harmony with my environment

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

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!

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

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

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 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 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.

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.

What makes me happy is to have my family around: my parents Fouzia and Ahmed, my sisters Souad and Malek, and my brothers Hamdi and Faouzi! May God bless them 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 to have been able to get a job on my own.

What makes me happy is to stop and enjoy a few quiet moments in my very busy life, so I can think of the distance covered, trials, moments of joy, and then I think that life is great!

What makes me happy is my calm spirit

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.

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 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 made me happy was to spend my birthday evening with my son and his girlfriend, and tomorrow it will be the same with my sister and her husband. Hurray for the family!

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

I adore my little kitten's caresses. That makes me happy.

What makes me happy is telling myself that there are places where everything is simple and less heavy than this place, and that can be here if I want it to be.

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.

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

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

What made me happy was when she showed me the stars and blew on my neck to warm me up.

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

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

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

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

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

Love!

What really makes me happiest is seeing happy people around me, and what makes my heart smile is sharing my happiness with others.

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

What makes me happiest is the fact that a child can be born from me and that one day I'll have little toes in my belly...

What makes me happy is to love and be loved

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.

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

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 !