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...

To take the time to eat in a fine restaurant in Marseille and to savour the different meals…

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.

I am happy when I can make a date with a very good-looking 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 makes me happy is having being able to create and form a happy couple with children.

A wet spring evening simply makes me happy.

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

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 sharing my newspaper with a neighbor on the metro who reads it over my shoulder.

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

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 seeing my love, who lives in Toulouse, very soon.

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

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.

The purchase of a house in the country made me happy. It gave me a goal.

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 to eat a chocolate filled pastry behind my archi (tecture) teacher's back!!!

What makes me happy is the beauty of the sky.

Having a cat makes me happy.

What makes me happy is that my scientific experiments are progressing.

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

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.

I met a person in the metro that made me smile…for no reason and that made me happy.

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.

What makes me happy ? Scouting when I was young, then my commitment to a trade-union and a political party, my family – children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and hearing that my great-grandson Guillaume will soon be christened.

My wife makes me happy… She helped me to discover what real life is like!!!

I'm happy when my pupils smile in class and when they seem to be happy to be at school.

What made me happy was to meet, totally by chance, the man who is now my husband. Thanks to fate, every day is a happy day.

I'm happy when I travel !

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.

What makes me happy is to love and be loved

I am happy when I am loved for what I am.

What makes me happy is to have a cat.

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

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

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 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, it is to crochet fine mats and advise some people how to do crochet and knitting.

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

What makes me happy is girls.

What makes me happy is snakes and when my parents accepted to get one at home.

To see my baby's birth.

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

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.

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.

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

What makes me happy is that everybody is fine.

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

As far as I'm concerned, what made me happy was to meet this great guy who I really love a lot.

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, today, is seeing a magnificent carpet of dead leaves at the foot of a tree and hearing a bird singing on the bare tree.

What made me happy is when my boyfriend proposed to me, but also when the Americans demonstrated against war in Irak.

What makes me happy is to think every morning when I read the happython, that I'm not the only one to think that way

What makes me happy is seeing my sweetie smile while reading the Happython each day.

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

What makes me happy is that it's raining today instead of a day when the weather's nice.

What makes me happy is having discovered Happython planet ! and sharing my happiness with others. I have hope for the best days.

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

What makes me happy is having being able to create and form a happy couple with children.

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

What makes me happy : all the young people getting involved in the life of a new family…and those babies continuing life.

What makes me happy is when my neighbour kindly offers me « tourtisseaux » to thank me for a small favour.

For me, it's the sea that makes me happy!!! When I see it or just even think about it I feel good deep inside. It might be quite trivial but the blue ocean makes me happy.

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.

My fall in the bus this afternoon because a good-looking boy gave me a smile and helped me to get up

What makes me happy is spending time with my friends, going out with them, sharing my deepest thoughts with them and feeling their trust.

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

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 is receiving a message that is proof of a pardon granted by a friend...maybe found again.

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? Well, I've been married to the man I adore for 36 and we are going to celebrate our 30th marriage anniversary next October 28. We have two sons, 22 and 29 years old, I am surrounded by love. Each second of my life I find a little happiness.

What makes me happy is to get up in the morning and thank God for letting me sleep in peace.

It's when a simple look is enough.

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.