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.

The idea of free time makes me happy. Let me explain: life is such that we are always doing something, stressed, running around, always going faster... So, to programme some free time, time to do nothing, is an idea that gives me a real sense of happiness.

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 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.

My referee diploma made me happy.

What makes me happy is holding one of the metro's double doors, while exchanging a smile, and vice-versa.

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

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

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

What makes me happy is reading or writing to my loved ones. It's knowing that I am there for them and that they're there for me.

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

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 to get up in the morning and think that I'm still there despite the past difficulties.

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 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.

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

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

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.

I am happy as soon as I get home from the office in the evening and see my child's smile.

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

What makes me happy is my calm spirit

My job!

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

Hugs!

What makes me happy is that my three and a half year old son gets angry if someone wants to smush an insect or when he asks us to be quiet to not scare a bird.

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).

What made me really happy? The first time my son smiled directly at me.

The day I decided to take myself by the hand again (I was quite depressed) made it so that, during this time, life itself made me happy...

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

What makes me happy is holding one of the metro's double doors, while exchanging a smile, and vice-versa.

What makes me happy is seeing that the head of a busy bar can stop working for two minutes because he saw a blind man trying desperately to walk across a crosswalk and help him cross arm in arm… that really make me happy to witness scenes like that ! Long live solidarity between people of all horizons !!

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

A woman makes me happy.

What makes me happy is finally being myself in my own eyes and in the eyes of my loved ones.

Hearing someone whistle will always be for me, synonymous with happiness. Thans Papy.

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

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

Happiness is when I see my mother again, for whom I'll always be the same kid (even if I'm not this kid anymore) and to see her face lighting up and smiling.

What makes me happy is eating calamari beignets in the university restaurant.

For me, what makes me happy is accomplishing the tasks I have to do... however small they are... the satisfaction of finished work...

A wet spring evening simply makes me happy.

What made me happy Tuesday was seeing my cashier at the supermarket.

What makes me happy is to see his first name show up on my cell phone when at the same moment I'm thinking of him.

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

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

What made me happy was when I played my first notes on the guitar a few months ago. So far I believed music was not for me.

What makes me happy is telling myself every morning, while reading the Happython, that I am not the only one who thinks like this.

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

To feel loved by my surroundings and to be able to return that love makes me happy.

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

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.

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

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.

The day when I had to defend my DES thesis I was really happy because of all the things I had endured achieving the project.

I no longer remember exactly when, But it was approximately in 1996 that I decided to “do something with Internet” It took me until April 1997 to get together the equipment, the connections and the supplies, but then bang, I saw photos of people far away appearing before my eyes, with immediacy of connection and of memory. Wow. For each question I had to do with actual things, ideas or sources of ideas, or how to do something, etc. etc. I could find the reply in a few minutes, and that's when I realised: One doesn't need to know how to reach one's goal before one has decided it - simply dream it and the answers to how you can succeed are on Internet – even if you wish to work towards an enlightened planetary civilisation…

What makes me happy is knowing that I am loved for who I am and that fills my heart with emotion to have tears of it in my eyes ! Then I understand that life is more than magic. Thanks to life.

What makes me happy is to see animals.

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.

What makes me happy is to eat a chocolate filled pastry behind my archi (tecture) teacher's back!!!

It's snowing. I didn't drink today (well… yeah, a little). I'm trying to answer your question… happiness ? For me this intense, deep emotion that moves me : I feel that I'm going to go away… I won't tremble anymore… live, that's all. Happiness is knowing that you can go away, happiness is the smile of someone who doesn't know that I'm an alcoholic. Happiness… is thinking that I'm normal. Happiness : being right, loyal, and honest.

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

Surprising a little sparrow while he's taking a bath in a puddle of water, that's what makes me really 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 chatting with my aunt on the internet and seeing her smile thanks to the webcam.

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.

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 is to love and be loved

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.