I also came to understand that our authenticity (or lack…

“Blind impatience is equally evident in the fruit section. Our ancestors might have delighted in the occasional handful of berries found on the underside…

— Alain de Botton

I think in particular of our need to speak to the hearts of young people, who, despite their constant exposure to messages contrary to…

— Pope Benedict XVI

When you're really famous, there's very little authenticity in people, so you prefer the company of children.

— Katherine Ryan

There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in…

— Anonymous

What I love about Nivea is they're all about authenticity. The brand isn't pretending to be anything it isn't.

— Tessa Virtue

Anything that I ever do is from the heart and authentic.

— Belinda Carlisle

“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, focus your energy on what you can create.”

— Roy Bennett

Accepting the reality of our sinfulness means accepting our authentic self. Judas could not face his shadow; Peter could. The latter befriended the impostor…

— Brennan Manning

Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.

— Eric Cantona

“I strive for authenticity even though it brings with it vulnerability and the inevitable judgment of others.”

— L.R.W. Lee

I think people can read authenticity and they know when you're involved and when you're just slapping your name on something.

— La La Anthony

“I figure the more people think I'm just mildly weird, the less likely they are to know how weird I really am.”

— Melanie Hooyenga

Real artists offer authenticity, not just money.

— Rhymefest

Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“the property that grounded the self in Romanticism was sincerity, and in modernism was authenticity, then in postmod ernism it is visibility.10”

— Chris Hedges