<Tab/>A famous philosopher, John Stuart Mill, once theorized the motivations for happiness. He explains that there were two classes; one was the external motivation from the hope of pleasing other people or God. The other motivation was the internal, which was to fulfill our "duty". He is absolutely right. Everything we do is an attempt to reach happiness, but what we do and the degree to such happiness is found …
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…we want and enforce happiness is through making others happy and fulfilling our goals. If you really think about it and trace back about why you do things, even simple things like homework, you can see that it is because you want to be happy. But don't worry too much about why you want to be happy and how do you do that, just do things just because and leave the thinking to the philosophers.