As a child, at the age when others promise to be…

“...You won't age? I promise you this - your hands will go shiny and transparent and at the slightest bruise they'll bleed...”

— John Geddes A Familiar Rain

“...Nyla was right in predicting that, for me, life would go on into old age and my promise has been kept too, for every…

— Edward Beauclerk Maurice

With Salvage the Bones, Jesmyn Ward has written the best sort of novel-a beautiful, important book that's both unflinching and tender, heartbreaking and triumphant.…

— Skip Horack

Children go where they find sincerity and authenticity.

— Eric Cantona

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

“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