what is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

The meaning of life to me is that we are here to learn to love and respect ourselves for who we really are and to learn from our mistakes so that we can understand and help others in similar situations. We are also here to learn how to follow our hearts and to believe in ourselves and our dreams and make them come true and to shine our light into the world and help others without expecting anything in return.

Answer 2

We're all familiar with wrong answers, but there are also such things as wrong questions, and this is one of them. The question is equivalent to "What is the colour of algebra?" or "What is the population of gravity?" Such sentences look like meaningful questions, grammatically, but they're not, because they assign properties to certain things that those things are incapable of having. However, meaning and life being more important to most of us than colour or algebra, we ask this question much more often than most of the countless other possible "questions" of the same kind. Meaning is a quality of language - words, sentences, propositions, signs, etc - and life, except as a mere word, is none of these things. Yet that doesn't mean life is "meaningless" in the pessimistic sense. In fact, to say life is meaningless is itself empty of meaning. You might as well criticise a bicycle for having no conscience. What we can more usefully and satisfyingly think about in regard to life, however, is significance, which life can and should have. Life wouldn't be much fun, or even interesting, if nothing we did or said could matter, or make a difference to, other people. But that purely human kind of significance - what other kind could there be? - comes in all shapes and sizes according to the needs, emotions, judgments, personal situations, etc, of oneself and the people around one. Nothing is of universal significance, because the universe doesn't, and can't, care. Only human beings, as far as we know, are capable of that. So don't worry about "the meaning of life", folks - just play nice, make someone happy, and, in the words of James Thurber, Let Your Mind Alone.

Answer 3

Welcome to this site!

Imagine one day you wake up in the morning and find yourself on an unknown magical land far away from you home. You find this new world charming and beautiful. Its impact upon you senses is spellbinding. You look at this world learn admiration. You feel curious and set out to explore, seek out more of your newly found world. Then you look around and realise that there are other people like you around, and you learn love.

You realise that this is not only the world of beauty and charm but it is also a world of love and care. Then soon you also realise that there is no end to love and beauty here, in the world you know. You ask yourself question, and think – can there be more love, much more? You think and your journey begins. But you do not know where to go, where to find what you are looking for, and you no longer remember where you are from, where all the love, care and beauty of the world come form? You know inside that the origins of these things cannot be different from your own origins – simply because you feel them and you always feel at home with these things. You sense a subtle connection within that reminds you of somewhere that you need to return, something that you need to find, and somebody you need to be and know yourself as. You search; you travel, both in your mind and in your heart. You travel over on land and over seas. You try to be better and better as a person, you try to excel in everything you do because you know that one day you will face the true excellence and you want to make sure that your are worthy of it.

Our life is like this – a journey. We forgot exactly where we are form but we have not lost the intuitive touch of our destination. This is what we are to keep in min here, figure out from the life we have what our life is - what it can be? What is the essence, and what is the reality of existence. Throughout our life seek the meanings of life. We improve ourselves and try to become better and better not only for the world we find ourselves in but also for an unseen destination. We try to transcend thought with our faith and try to excel the matter in search of our heavenly origins.
Life is a journey, and the purpose of this journey is to travel it well.

Answer 4

Pleasant it is, when on the great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another’s great tribulation: not because any man’s troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive what ills you are free from is pleasant. Pleasant is it also to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in the peril. But nothing is more delightful than to possess lofty sanctuaries serene, well fortified by the teachings of the wise, whence you may look down upon others and behold them all astray, wandering abroad and seeking the path of life: the strife of wits, the fight for precedence, all labouring night and day with surpassing toil to mount upon the pinnacle of riches and to lay hold on power…

Answer 5

The meaning of life? Well life it's a funny old game and whilst you there I'll have a packet of peanuts.... actually make that two, she's nearly uncovered.

A step is to recognise that you are contemplating your navel.
Live life and you will find out.

Answer 6

I believe the meaning of life is to find your own personal meaning

Answer 7

the meaning of life is whatever ur take on it, it is how we look on it ourselves, we all have different tastes, and see things a different way, life is exactly what u make it, no one can tell u what life is about because it's their opinion not yours, and if u listen to them u might as well start worrying what people think

Answer 8

the secret of life? I was told it is like the universe , vast and without depth that any one can measure. but I was told the answer to the tree biggest questions in life, yours is one, the second, whats the secret of happiness? the third what is perfection.? the answer is do small things together, and remember there is always some one worse off than you.ETC. and be happy.

Answer 9

There is no "meaning" to life , just be happy and live each and every day to the full, what more can you do !

Answer 10

"The meaning of life" Is a film by Monty Python

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