It's the simplest things that make us happy

We've all heard that it's the simplest things that make us happy, but is it true?

The Daily Record reports of a Nokia survey that asked "what little things create happiness and help combat stress?"

Among the things they found out was that spending time with friends/loved ones was #1. Other things on the list were "finding a seat on the train," (must be a UK thing), "hearing a favorite old song", "having the remote control all to yourself" (must be a guy thing), and finding money they didn't know they had."

Dalene at "It's a Boomer Life" (who pointed us to the Daily Record story) noted that these made her happy:

...gardening, sitting by the river, walking on the beach, reading or watching something that makes me laugh, additional sources of ways to relax that evoke feelings of happiness and contentment.

She then asks us her readers what makes us happy and/or relax?

Here's my off-the-top-of-my-head list: Having a great run, my first cup of coffee in the morning, impeccably nice weather (I'm very influenced by the weather), stepping on a scale and surprisingly discovering that I had not gained any weight, having a blog post get picked up by Digg or StumbleUpon, having my cat acknowledge my existence for something other than food, reminiscing...