what is the meaning of life?

Answer 1

Life – it has a meaning and loving purpose - you just have to find your purpose and live it.

I believe every person is here for a definite purpose. Each person is special and valuable; that refers to me, you, your family, friends, in fact everybody! There is a loving plan for each of our lives here on earth and there is no such thing as coincidence. I don't believe that anything in life happens by chance and that every aspect of our lives points to something deeper.

You need to decide now to live for God rather than for yourself. You spend your life on Earth preparing yourself (as best you can) for death. I don't see death as a scary, negative experience, but birth into a bliss filled eternal life with God. I believe that this is something you have to consciously choose or not during your life on earth.

The meaning of life is for us to discover that we are true children of an infinitely loving and merciful God, to find out what our responsibilities are to our Creator, and to fulfill those responsibilities. Each of us is called to affirm, accept and develop the talents God has given us. -

Answer 2

80% of humanity, the religious folks, don't need to ask the meaning of life, the church tells them....the supernatural explanation. But the rest of us can't swallow religious dogma, because there's no evidence. Nobody can prove that there life after death, that people are tortured or rewarded after life or that there's invisible spirits running around.

I've come to two conclusions recently:

1. Life has no meaning
2. Life has a million meanings.

First, there's a certainty that death and annihilation awaits not only you, but the Earth in general. It's an astonomical certainty that our sun will supernova and leave the earth a burnt crisp, not to mention all the other extinction level events around the corner.

Second, the million things that give us meaning are the pleasurable experiences we can conjure up during the short period we are here on the earth, in the form of the relationships we have with our kids and other people, and the 'housekeeping' types of purposes. What i mean by that are the curing disease, ending hunger, improving literacy, reducing crime, preventing war, helping other kinds of things.

So the bottom line is, we only have a temporary meaning to life, to reduce pain and increase pleasure, other than that everything is lost to oblivion.

Answer 3

Quotes from around the internet

Sydney Harris: Quotes on The Meaning of Life
When I hear somebody sigh, "Life is hard," I am always tempted to ask, "Compared to what?

Charles A Beard: Quotes on The Meaning of Life
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Bob Dole: Quotes on The Meaning of Life
When it's all over, it's not who you were. It's whether you made a difference.

Les Brown: Quotes on The Meaning of Life
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Tuli Kupferberg: Quotes on The Meaning of Life
When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.

Greg Anderson: Quotes on The Meaning of Life
When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing -- then we truly live life.

Sutton: Quotes on The Meaning of Life
When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.

W. Clement Stone: Quotes on The Meaning of Life
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.

Stedman Graham: Quotes on The Meaning of Life
When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.

Cherokee Expression: Quotes on The Meaning of Life
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.

Answer 4

There is no altruistic meaning to life just as there is no altruistic meaning to Da Vinci's Mona Lisa. The individual gives an opinion of what life means to that individual. Only you can answer that question for yourself, for I would have no idea of what the meaning of your life, or anyone's life is.

Life on the whole is artistically enigmatic and many meanings can be derived. All life has no meaning, it just occurs due to chemical reactions.

Artistically? There is no set answer. What is the meaning of Munsch's The Scream? Ask Munsch. If there is a creator of life, only that creator could tell you what life means, but good luck getting an answer out of some fictitious, conscious, omni-being.

Answer 5

Sooner or later, nearly everybody wonders what the purpose of life is. Is it to work hard to improve our living conditions, to provide for our families, to die after perhaps 70 or 80 years, and then to be nonexistent forever? One young person who felt this way said that there is no other purpose in life than "to live, to have children, to be happy and then to die." But is that true? And does death really end it all?

Since human philosophies and religions have not satisfactorily explained what the purpose of life is, where can we go to find out what it is? Is there a source of superior wisdom that can tell us the truth about this matter?

Who can tell us what the purpose of life really is? Well, if you were to visit a machine designer and saw him working on a complicated piece of machinery that you did not recognize, how could you find out what it was for? The best way would be for you to ask the designer.

Thus, the evidence tells us that the universe, the earth, and living things on the earth could not have come about just by chance. They all give silent testimony to a highly intelligent, powerful Creator.

The Bible shows that God prepared the earth especially with humans in mind. Isaiah 45:18 says regarding the earth that God "did not create it simply for nothing [but] formed it even to be inhabited." And he provided the earth with everything that people would need, not just to exist, but to enjoy life to the full.—Genesis, chapters 1 and 2.

Thus, from the beginning it was God's purpose for a perfect human family to dwell on earth forever in a paradise. And it is still his purpose! Without fail, that purpose will be fulfilled. The Bible states: "Jehovah of armies has sworn, saying: 'Surely just as I have figured, so it must occur; and just as I have counseled, that is what will come true.'" "I have even spoken it; I shall also bring it in. I have formed it, I shall also do it."—Isaiah 14:24; 46:11.

Jesus Christ spoke about God's purpose to restore a paradise on earth when he told a certain man who wanted hope for the future: "You will be with me in Paradise." (Luke 23:43) The apostle Peter too spoke of the coming new world when he foretold: "There are new heavens [a new governmental arrangement ruling from heaven] and a new earth [a new earthly society] that we are awaiting according to [God's] promise, and in these righteousness is to dwell."—2 Peter 3:13.

What a grand prospect that is, living forever on a paradise earth free from all wickedness, crime, sickness, sorrow, and pain! In the final book of the Bible, God's prophetic Word summarizes this grand purpose by declaring: "[God] will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away." It adds: "And the One seated on the throne said: 'Look! I am making all things new.' Also, he says: 'Write, because these words are faithful and true.'"—Revelation 21:4, 5.

Yes, God has a grand purpose in mind. It will be a new world of righteousness, an eternal paradise, foretold by the One who can and will do what he promises, for his "words are faithful and true."

Answer 6

I guess its living life with no regrets, because what we do is what we choose we knew what we were doing. Life is to short to worry about what people think. Live life, get paid, then get laid, that was said on american pie wedding. Life is about choosing the right path to go into, if you choose one way it will effect others but sometimes you have to do that in order to get what you want.

Answer 7

Life
L- Love all you know
I- Invite Happiness. Intelligence.. Do what would be good for you and for the earth. Apply your brains and hurt no one
F- Fun . Beautiful world this is. Lots of things to explore
E- Energy and Enthusiasm- Do your work. It may be cutting wood for all you know.. but whatver it is.. do it with Full energy and enthusiasm

Answer 8

Life is much more than the human body! Life is the being of our soul, our spirit. The "life" that you are referring to is where you are now, in your body.

Life is a learning process. It is a lesson. A lesson for your soul...Sometimes you fail, but failure leads to success. THAT my friend, is life.

Answer 9

well,my mother says the meaning of life is to eat spaggeti, my sister says it is to have sex and my best friend to buy clothes.other people claim it is to be a good person or live your live happily no matter what.The meaning of life is different religion to religion, people to people. just find what's yours meaning of life because you will never be in a position to find what is the general truth about that matter. [..at least... since u r alive..;o]...]

Answer 10

Life only means whatever you want it to mean... as much or as little. Life is what you make it-- you can make it worthwhile or you can blow it-- and nobody really cares what you do cause it's your own trip, after all.