What is the meaning of life?

• To realize one’s potential and ideals: to chase dreams; to live one’s dreams; to spend it for something that will outlast it; to matter: to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all; to expand one’s potential in life; to become the person you’ve always wanted to be; to become the best version of yourself; to seek happiness and flourish; to be a true authentic human being; to be able to put the whole of oneself into one’s feelings, one’s work, one’s beliefs; to follow or submit to our destiny; to achieve eudaimonia, a flourishing of human spirit.
• To achieve biological perfection: to survive, that is, to live as long as possible, including pursuit of immortality (through scientific means); to live forever or die trying; to adapt. Often to improve one’s chances of success in another purpose; sometimes, as a purpose in itself (adapting to adapt); to evolve; to replicate, to reproduce. “The ‘dream’ of every cell is to become two cells.”
• To seek wisdom and knowledge: to expand one’s perception of the world; to follow the clues and walk out the exit; to learn as many things as possible in life; to know as much as possible about as many things as possible; to seek wisdom and knowledge and to tame the mind, as to avoid suffering caused by ignorance and find happiness; to face our fears and accept the lessons life offers us; to find the meaning or purpose of life; to find a reason to live; to resolve the imbalance of the mind by understanding the nature of reality.
• To do good, to do the right thing: to leave the world as a better place than you found it; to do your best to leave every situation better than you found it; to benefit others; to give more than you take; to end suffering; to create equality; to challenge oppression; to distribute wealth; to be generous; to contribute to the well-being and spirit of others; to help others, to help one another; to take every chance to help another while on your journey here; to be creative and innovative; to forgive; to accept and forgive human flaws; to be emotionally sincere; to be responsible; to be honorable; to seek peace.
• Meanings relating to religion: to reach the highest heaven and be at the heart of the Divine; to have a pure soul and experience God; to understand the mystery of God; to know or attain union with God; to know oneself, know others, and know the will of heaven; to love something bigger, greater, and beyond ourselves, something we did not create or have the power to create, something intangible and made holy by our very belief in it; to love God and all of his creations; to glorify God by enjoying him forever; to go and make new disciples of Jesus Christ; to act justly, love mercy, and walk humbly with your God; to be fruitful and multiply; to obtain freedom; to fill the Earth and subdue it.
• To love, to feel, to enjoy the act of living: to love more; to love those who mean the most. Every life you touch will touch you back; to treasure every enjoyable sensation one has; to seek beauty in all its forms; to have fun or enjoy life; to seek pleasure and avoid pain; to be compassionate; to be moved by the tears and pain of others, and try to help them out of love and compassion; to love others as best we possibly can; to eat, drink, and be merry.
• To have power, to be better: to strive for power and superiority; to rule the world; to know and master the world; to know and master nature.
• Life has no meaning: life or human existence has no real meaning or purpose because human existence occurred out of a random chance in nature, and anything that exists by chance has no intended purpose; life has no meaning, but as humans we try to associate a meaning or purpose so we can justify our existence; there is no point in life, and that is exactly what makes it so special.
• One should not seek to know and understand the meaning of life: the answer to the meaning of life is too profound to be known and understood; you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life; the meaning of life is to forget about the search for the meaning of life; ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
• Life is bad: life is a bitch, and then you die; better never to have been.