Identity vs Image
Identity is who you are. Image is how you are viewed by others. Both influence the choices that you make but identity offers much greater longer term rewards. Whenever possible, base your key life decisions on the person that you are.
Here are a number of quotes from film about identity and image.
“Only something fake could work 100% of the time.”
“Your whole life is in your face.”
“Hold fast to the human inside of you and you’ll survive.”
“It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else and still unknown to himself.”
“The trick is living with your self forever.”
“Who you are defines what you do.”
"It doesn't matter how this looks to other people. If this is something that you got to do, then you do it."
“If you stay in one place long enough, you become that place.”
"He's trying to do something that is essentially impossible. He's trying to sing in his own voice using someone else's vocal cords."
“Arrogance and self-awareness seldom go hand-in-hand.”