To feel the blending of warmth and cool in a summer evening, to drink a cool beer, to eat spiced olives, to hear my friends laugh, for me, that is happiness (in summer).

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.

My greatest happiness has been the birth of my two children! One boy one girl:

What makes me happy ? A bird singing in the morning when I get up.

Getting married to someone I love. A nice trip with my family. Having a good job!

What makes me happy is to prepare a good meal when my son comes home.

When I left alone to experience giving up everything, I had the impression that I was happy.

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

What makes me happy is to have been able to get a job on my own.

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 makes me happy is getting a love letter meant for someone else... and getting a love letter really meant for me!

What makes me happy is the first kiss in a love affair…The first craziest moments…

What made me happy was seeing whales in the distance spitting water, indifferent to the spectators sitting around a fire on this Zipolite beach.

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

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!!!

My first contact with her, my hands on her marvelous body, our first heartfelt words, our first steps along the Rhine to exchange, a little timidly, our visions of the world

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

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 is to see that people can work together to overcome difficulty.

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

What makes me happy is the sunset above the sea.

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

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

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.

My greatest happiness has been the birth of my two children! One boy one girl:

Cultivating my friendships is what makes me happy.

What made me happy...I was five years old, I wanted a little sister and I got one the day before my birthday. That was my best gift!

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

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 happy is to have the possibility to organize a great party with all the family where my brother could come with his children.

A woman makes me happy.

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

What made me happy is that my best friend came with her boyfriend and offered me to go out to take my mind off things because I had just been chucked.

My children ‘s smiles make me happy.

lived my greatest happiness after having gone through a period of depression. I walk outside and I kneeled before the color of the starry sky and I told myself: God it's beautiful!

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.

I'm happy every morning when my man snuggles up to me saying: “good morning, darling, I'm here next to you”. I shiver.

What makes me happy is being a great-great grandfather.

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

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.

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 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 the most happy is the love of my future husband who, despite leukemia, helps me to overcome all in life.

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

When I left alone to experience giving up everything, I had the impression that I was happy.

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

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

To help people as much as I can makes me feel happy.

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

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

What makes me happy is reading every little bit of joy in my children's eyes.

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

What makes me happy is a state of mind and spiritual conscience.

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

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

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

Up until now nothing that I have accomplished or created in my life is worth mentioning compared to that freedom I have acquired through the fact of doing nothing to accomplish, change or improve anything in the world, including myself

What makes me happy is cracking my toes in bed instead of studying math during that time.

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 ? 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.

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 snakes and when my parents accepted to get one at home.

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 thinking about what's going to make me happy later. When I get my car, a job I like, so that I can fulfill my passion and live with the woman I love and who loves me too. My happiness is living free.

What makes me happiest is all the little daily pleasures... Why search so hard, look what we have near

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? The sun, books, wine, when I have a good idea, a good conversation

The purest moment of happiness was my fiance's return to France after eight months spent in prison, in Turkey... All that because he had taken some papers! For now, it's my most beautiful moment.

My most beautiful moment of happiness was when my love, Nuno Filipe, had prepared for me the most beautiful Valentine's day…. We went to the highest place in the region. Without me noticing anything, he took out two crystal glasses of champaign and a red roses bunch where there was a little note: with lots of love. And the best: a ring, a solitaire and the most important, lots of love…

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.

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.

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...