On meaningful lives

Meaningful human lives … involve being moral, having true friends, and having opportunities to express our talents, to find meaningful work, to create and live among beautiful things, and to live cooperatively in social environments where we trust each other. If we have all these things, then we live meaningfully by any reasonable standard. If we have only some of them, we live less meaningfully, and if we lack all these things, especially the first two, our life is meaningless. (p. 58)

Owen Flanagan as quoted in http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/the-really-hard-problem-meaning-in-a-material-world/