Do you like Happy life or Meaningful life?

Happiness vs. Meaningfulness:

 Do You have to Choose between Them or Can they Coexist with Each Other? 

Everything we do is either for pleasure or to avoid pain. 

Yes! Every step by human being is induced by either the desire to be happy or out of fear. People about whom we say they work selflessly for others derive happiness from the happiness of others so in a way, they're working for their happiness only.

I would enhance it further by claiming that the fear, or the avoiding pain part is a result of our desire of happiness only. We avoid grief, pain, sorrow because they will rob us of our happiness. We want pleasure because it gives happiness and avoid pain because it takes happiness.

So the conclusion which can be drawn is that all human actions are motivated by the desire to be happy, which can serve as a combination of the two above stated motives.

 

The following two slokas of Gita are  tools of practise to live meaningful life!

There is one kind of happiness that we get from external objects, and another kind of happiness that we experience from within when we absorb the mind in Higher consciousness(God).  If we do not experience happiness within, we will not be able to permanently resist external temptations.  But when the bliss of God starts flowing within the heart, then the fleeting external pleasures seem trivial in comparison and are easy to renounce. 

యోఽoతః సుఖోఽoతరారామః తథాంతర్జ్యోతిరేవ యః ।
స యోగీ బ్రహ్మనిర్వాణం బ్రహ్మభూతోఽధిగచ్ఛతి ।। 5-24 ।।

योऽन्तःसुखोऽन्तरारामस्तथान्तर्योतिरेव यः।
स योगी ब्रह्मनिर्वाणं ब्रह्मभूतोऽधिगच्छति ॥ 5-24॥

Those are happy and meaningful whenever they are able to check the forces of desire and anger; 

శక్నోతీహైవ యః సోఢుం ప్రాక్శరీర విమోక్షణాత్ ।
కామక్రోధోద్భవం వేగం స యుక్తః స సుఖీ నరః ।। 5-23 ।।