What is the meaning of life?

What is the meaning of life?" is a question many people ask themselves at some point during their lives.
Some people believe that the meaning of life is one or more of the following:

Survival and temporal success

...to accumulate wealth and increase social status
...to compete or co-operate with others
...to destroy others who harm you, or to practice nonviolence and nonresistance
...to die having succeeded in your purpose
...to live
...to protect one's family
...to gain and exercise power
...to leave a legacy, such as a work of art or a book
...to produce offspring through sexual reproduction or asexual reproduction
...to seek freedom, either physically, mentally or financially
...to seek happiness and flourish, experience pleasure or celebrate
...to survive, including the pursuit of immortality through scientific means (see life extension)

Wisdom and knowledge

...to be without question, or to keep asking questions
...to explore, to expand beyond our frontiers
...to learn from one's own and others' mistakes
...to seek truth, knowledge, understanding, or wisdom
...to try to discover and understand the meaning of life
...to expand one's perception of the world

Ethical

...to express compassion
...to live in peace with each other, and in harmony with our natural environment (see utopia)
...to give and receive love
...to seek and acquire virtue, to live a virtuous life
...to serve others, or do good deeds
...to work for justice and democracy

Religious, spiritual and esoteric

...to turn fear into joy at a constant rate achieving on literal and metaphorical levels: immortality, enlightenment
and atonement
...to achieve a supernatural connection within the natural context
...to achieve enlightenment and inner peace
...to become God, or God-like
...to experience existence from an infinite number of perspectives in order to expand the consciousness of all there
is (i.e. God)
...to follow the "Golden Rule"
...to produce useful structure in the universe over and above consumption (see net creativity)
...to reach Heaven in the afterlife
...to understand and follow the "Word of God"
...to worship, serve, or achieve union with God
...to achieve rebirth in the Pure Land

Other

...to advance natural human evolution, or to contribute to the gene pool of the human race
...to advance technological evolution, or to actively develop the future human
...to contribute to collective meaning ("we" or "us") without having individual meaning ("I" or "me")
...to die, or become a martyr
...to find a purpose, a "reason" for living that hopefully raises the quality of one's experience of life, or even
life in general
...to live, and enjoy the passage of time
...to have fun
...to protect humanity, or more generally the environment
...to pursue a dream, vision, or destiny
...to relate, connect, or achieve unity with others
...to seek and find beauty
...to simply live until one dies (there is no universal or celestial purpose)
...to participate in the chain of events which has led from the creation of the universe until its possible
end (either freely chosen or determined, this is a subject widely debated amongst philosophers)
...to resolve all problems that one faces, or to ignore them and attempt to fully continue life without them,
or to detach oneself from all problems faced (see Buddhism)
...still some do not even think there is any purpose whatsoever (see nihilism)
...as there is no intrinsic meaning to life, to each individual, the "meaning of life" is whatever he/she decides
it is. In that sense, every point above is potentially valid.
...There is no meaning.