What is the meaning of Life!

No doubt that people need meanings to everything and for that they need to ask questions. Each person is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life. For that he is to live as others' answer or experiences may not be as meaningful as you may be expecting. There is great meaning in life for those who are willing to travel rather than those who stand still or sit looking for it.   Meaning is not what you start with, but what you look for during the journey and end up with. Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations. Ultimately, one should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather he must recognize that it is he who is asked.  Most of the time life is half or almost spent or gone away before we realize what it is and by that time it is too late to live fully. As long as one keeps searching on the journey, the answers will come. Never ever forget or stop living in quest for the meaning of life or because of some unresolved questions in your mind. In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. You are to go through the book. You'll have to take the journey. You will have to live and find yourself. It is the story/journey that matters not just the ending.

 

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Do not seek the answers, which cannot be given to you now because you will not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps, then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer. - Rainer Maria Rilke

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.
The professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said:

"If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress.

Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each other's cups.
 You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are always looking for the meaning of life - Albert Camus