A scene from The Life of David Gale 2003
David Gale Kevin Spacey

[Giving a lecture to his college students]

Living by your wants will never make you happy; what it means to be fully human is to strive to live by ideas and ideals and not to measure your life by what you ever attain in terms of your desires but those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality, even self-sacrifice.

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