what makes you happy?
repeated answers are bold, larger if more often, and a few favorites are in italics
A couple of things, first when I know those that I love are happy
A fun job
A lot of things make me happy. Being outside, beauty of nature, feeling accomplished, feeling like I'm in control of my destiny
A lot of things- I look for happiness everywhere
A lot of things, seeing other people happy, feeling like I did something good, food, exercise.
Again loads of stuff, sunshine and my family in short
Almost everything, the smallest things
Animals
Animals, my husband, travel, doing healthy things, things that enrich my mind, books, art, learning. Getting out and away from everything- where there's no cell service
Animals, weather, family
Any good news
Anything good, laughter, babies, happiness, love, life, the world, people
Attention
Babies make me happy, and my family
Being able to do the things you want
Being able to figure something out, good music, pursuit of happiness, something new that makes the lightbulb go off
Being able to make a positive difference in someone's else's life
Being able to spend time with my family (during visits)
Being alive
Being around family and seeing people around me happy and enjoying their life. And being able to bring people happiness
Being around friends and family
Being around my family no matter what, no matter how much chaos is going on
Being around people I enjoy and care about and doing things I enjoy doing
Being around people that I love and doing the things that I love and remembering other good times. I'm very nostalgic
Being around people who are uplifting, young people, people that laugh a lot, people that are always happy and I don't like to be around people that act old and are grumpy
Being around the people that I care about
Being creative, which for me is mainly photography
Being happy
Being loved and having my dog around
Being on vacation
Being outside
Being surrounded by friends and family
Being with all the people you love and proving yourself wrong
Being with family
Being with family and friends and when my kids go to bed
Being with family, especially the little ones
Being with family, that is happiness
Being with friends
Being with little children
Being with loved ones
Being with lovely people
Being with my children, nothing is better
Being with my family
Being with people I know and love
Being with people I love
Being with people I love and trying new things
Being with the people I love, being in the present, fortunate for where I am. Living each moment. My work.
Believing in myself
Cake
Children
Chocolate
Clarity
Connecting with people and new experiences
Connections, when you feel that you can relate and share experiences in a tangible way and you grow or learn from it
Creativity, movies that have surreal new worlds. Things I haven't seen before, esoteric stuff
Dogs, people with a sense of humor, seeing others achieve something they really wanted to do
Downtime
Drugs
Earlier, before I was 50 I was a different person. But now I don't want to see anyone sad, whether they are related to me or not, even my enemies
Eating chocolate
Enjoying the day with my 10th [grade] friends
Even small things
Everything
Everything, being alive. To wake up and be breathing. Family and friends
Everything, The fact that I'm around happy people
Everything, watching people, analyzing and thinking about things
Existence
Experiencing new things and doing things that I didn't think would make me happy but finding out that they did
Fairness and justice, my family also
Family
Family and a balance in life between livelihood and recreation and having time to do the things you'd like to do
Family and friends
Family being around family and knowing you can reach out to them
Family, friends and dancing
Family, friends, traveling, music, creativity
Family, jazz, good food
Feeling appreciated
Feeling connected
Feeling like I'm fulfilled
Feeling loved
Financial Stability and exercise
Food
Food and adventure
Friends
Friends, being around people I love
Funny stuff
Generally when I’ve done something that I’ve wanted to do
Getting Xbox
Giving all that I can and connecting deeply with other people
Giving to people
Good finances
Goofy
Grace
Great life, easy and good life
Growth
Hanging out with friends and family, seeing friends, getting into conversations, sharing things, telling about things we know
Happiness of other people. I think it's infectious, you cannot but participate in that happiness. Basically I'm a happiness vampire
Happy things
Have a good time with my friends and my family
Having a busy schedule, being active and being around people
Having a good life
Having family
Having family all together and doing things we all enjoy. Which includes travel. Watching grandkids grow up and their accomplishments
Having family and friends around. And getting up in the morning and seeing sunshine
Having my grandson, prayers
Having my grandson's arms wrapped around my neck
Hawaii
Helping other people and giving them something I create or facilitate
Helping others, performing and giving back
Helping people
Helping people and having lots of people in my life
Helping physically disabled [people] receive vocational training, that's the main thing
Hiking with friends and family in the mountains
Holidays with family
Humans using their potential in creative ways
I don't have happiness. With 3 kids it's very hard. [Happiness] won't come
I have a good idea
I'm always happy, everybody
I'm always happy, everything
I'm happy all the time, when I've got my whole family
Ice cream
If Bubba [my brother] doesn't cut my ponies in half
If folks that matter to me are truly happy
If I can share good moments with my partner. In or out of the house
If India flourishes I will be happy
If my grandson learns to speak
Interacting with all ages and especially children
Interacting with people
It depends on others, including relatives
Just about everything
Just spending time with the family, going places, enjoying life, spending money
Keeping busy
Keeping other people happy. If they laugh I laugh.
Kindness, art and music, nature, plants and animals, humor, creativity
Kindness, my husband, music
Knowing that I will be home with my kids soon
Laughter
Life
Listening to my radio
Living a fulfilling life. Spending time with people, experiencing new things and not taking life too seriously because at the end of it all we'll just be lying in the dirt
Living constantly in non-stop mode. Those little tiny moments where you enjoy the sun and the beach you feel happy and there's no reason to it
Living life
Living, seeing the world, sunshine, being alive
Lollipops, candy and milk and cookies
Lots of things: sunshine, gentle rains, soft breezes, good meals, good wine, having my friends and children around me. Feeling financial security. Good health
Love
Magna-Tiles (building toy)
Making new choices to change my life and knowing that's possible
Making other people laugh
Making others happy
Many things, when we get the desired things and when I get more marks and get 1st rank. And when I play with my Mom and Dad, many things but this paper isn't enough for me
Me and everyone around me finding purpose
Mishaa [baby sister] and Momma
Moments of clarity when I can appreciate what I have
Mommy
Mother's love
Music and my kids' sense of humor
Music- playing music, watching others perform, most touching way to express yourself
My 8th [grade] public result
My animals, they are my number 1. I like flowers, chocolate, pink and my husband. Simple things make me happy
My child being born, working in this school
My class students, my friends
My daughter
My daughters, spending time with them
My dog
My family
My family and my dog Lelah
My family makes me happy
My family makes me happy, and I make myself happy
My family, friends and nature. I actually find a lot of joy in just looking at nature
My family, grandkids
My family, my daughter, my granddaughter, my animals, my friends. I like being social
My family, my friends, my dogs, snowboarding and Colorado
My family, my kids, my grandkids, I absolutely love travel. I enjoy reading. I spend an extraordinary amount of time outside. Being outside is very important to me. I also swim and swimming is like my meditation
My family, watching the kids grow
My family. Which is supportive
My friends
My friends and family
My friends and family and a sunny day
My girlfriend
My girlfriend, my family, my friends and clean sheets
My Grandkids
My grandpa. When I become an IIS collector or Doctor, he will be proud
My husband and son
My kid, moving in the right direction professionally
My kids
My kids and my family
My Mother [being] happy
My name is happy, I'm always happy
My religion
My son
My sons being happy
My two little ones
My wife, she smiles all the time
Nature at its best
New discoveries
Not getting hurt and having fun
Not many things
Old dogs
Opportunity, experimenting, vague notions of freedom, meeting strangers, special place I don't expect
Owning our own house
Parents
People
People and puppies
People being kind to me
Personally- I get satisfaction from from being able to put my best skills to positively affect the lives of others through teaching
Playing
Playing soccer
Playing video games
Playing video games and getting a new book
Playing volleyball
Playing with Claire [Sister]
Playing with dogs, having fun with cats and friends, and playing soccer
Playing with my grandson
Playing, boating, being at sea, golfing, recreational things
Reading
Relationships
Right now in my life booking a gig
Seeing improvement
Seeing my children and especially my grandchildren happy
Seeing my family
Seeing my fiancee at the end of the day
Seeing my kids and [my partner] happy Seeing my kids laugh and play together
Seeing others happy, my kids or even a stranger
Seeing people be nice to a stranger
Seeing people win what they worked hard for
Seeing people, making others happy
Seeing progress
Sex
Sex. We're still doing it, believe you me
Sharing with more than one person, the more the merrier
Simple things, people, being with people you care about, sunshine, climbing mountains, traveling, nature
Sitting in my backyard at dusk with a glass of wine
Six pack of beer and sitting on the beach with my wife
So many things, nature, the good in everything
Soccer
Socializing and meeting friends and family
Sometimes my friends, going on crazy adventures, doing jiu jitsu
Sparkles [Partner], the fact that spring comes every year, little kids being allowed to be kids and human inventions that solve really important problems. And excessive applications of unicorns
Spending more time with my family and not doing anything routine at all
Spending time with family
Spending time with my family
Spending time with my family and friends
Spending time with people I love
Spending time with the people and animals I care about
Spontaneity
Staying home with my parents
Still trying to discover that to be honest
Success
Success, being around family and friends, having genuine moments
Success, success of others
Sun and being with family and friends, spending time with them
Sun, love
Sunny days
Sunsets
Sunshine
Sunshine, happy people, dancing
Surfing and video games
Surprises
Synchrony
That's everything, friends, sports (I bowl 4 times a week), I guess staying active
The area, atmosphere and where I am
The boy [son]
The city at night
The fact that I'm able to indulge in all my daily activities
The fact that you can smile at a stranger and after 30 seconds of smiling the brain releases a chemical that makes you happy. So by smiling at someone you can make them happy too
The feeling of accomplishment
The future, the opportunity of a second chance
The idea that there is a resolution to pain and suffering
The look of a little baby when they look at you and you wonder what they are saying
The love and support of my family
The ocean, chocolate, steak, being close to people I care about, dancing
The opposite of hate or intolerance. Being able to imagine things and create it
The sun, friends, vacation, satisfying work
The VFW, social things
There's a lot of stuff- people helping the environment, those who help those that didn't have privileges, animals, the world that we live in, friends
There's so many things that make me happy, seeing my family happy
Things that are positive
To be outside, live in the Northwest. And spending time with friends
Traveling
Traveling, being out of debt
Understanding
Usually when I’m feeling healthy and I don’t have any adversaries around. When I’m jogging, feeling good.
Very generically, connections with people, family, friends, connections
Waking up in the morning. I'm just happy
Warmness
Watching my boys arrive. Having family that is healthy and getting along well
Watching my daughter grow
Watching my kids discover something new. I'm happy when I'm laughing and surrounded by people that make me laugh
Watching my kids succeed
Watching people do something kind to themselves or to somebody else and watching the positive chain reaction
Watching people grow and learn new things and hard work
When all the kids are at home
When all things are alright
When children are well
When Christmas time is here
When everybody is happy
When everybody is happy, playing, sunny, ice cream, cake
When everyone is doing well
When everyone is healthy and happy
When everyone is together
When I can do both TV and reading Garfield
When I connect with people in authentic ways, when I know I've lived up to the best me in that moment
When I do what I want
When I go on a tour with my friends
When I have no distractions and am blasting music
When I play sports
When I play with my friends
When I pray alone in the middle of the night and I'm alone with my creator
When I secure a good place and my ambition is met
When I see people come together
When I see people smile, makes you think everyone has a positive view. It makes things better.
When I try hard and work on something and it goes well
When I'm scoring good marks in my exams
When I'm with my [partner] and my daughters and talk with them by phone/Skype
When I'm with my family
When I'm with my family and friends
When I’m playing with my friends or in school when there’s no homework
When Miles [brother] and I play games
When Mom and Dad buy me things
When Mommy and Daddy are home
When my brothers play basketball with me
When my family is doing well, my wife and 3 kids. When the Huskies win it makes it even better
When my family is happy
When my Mom is happy
When my parents (and my dog) are happy. My family, dinner
When my sister does play with me
When other people succeed and I'm confident I had a hand in it.
When people are smiling
When people I care about surprise me with their creativity and vivaciousness
When people I love are doing well, especially my immediate family, my kids, husband and myself. We're able to enjoy our circumstances and having enough to be comfortable and do some of the things you want in life
When somebody makes me happy
When somebody says something really funny
When someone doesn't yell
When someone tells a joke
When someone who is vulnerable places their complete trust in me and it's warranted
When something comes to me, when I get something
When the family gets together
When they give back my toys
When things are going well in life
When we help needy people, it makes me happy
When you eat cake
When you feel a sense of accomplishment when you've completed a task, and when you see others happy
When you know those funny cat videos, dogs dancing or funny animals
Whenever [my daughter] is happy. Whenever she's happy, I'm happy
Whenever I feel success and whenever I make people happy or laugh
Whenever I'm out and about meeting people
Working around computers, going inside, coding. I also really like acting a lot
Young children