top of page
.png){kind=small}
All Quotes Collection
"To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity."
64
"To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding."
41
"Whoever knows that the mind is a fiction and devoid of anything real knows that his own mind neither exists nor doesn't exist."
58
"As long as you look for a Buddha somewhere else, you'll never see that your own mind is the Buddha."
Mind,
36
"Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way."
46
"A Buddha is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad."
49
"According to the Sutras, evil deeds result in hardships and good deeds result in blessings."
52
"All the suffering and joy we experience depend on conditions."
46
"Buddhas move freely through birth and death, appearing and disappearing at will."
42
"But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside."
54
"Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice."
47
"And as long as you're subject to birth and death, you'll never attain enlightenment."
41
"And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings."
37
"About 60 percent of the oil consumed daily by Americans is used for transportation, and about 45 percent is used for passenger cars and light trucks."
43
"So the only way we're going to improve fuel economy or appliance efficiency swiftly and to the maximum extent practicable is if the government requires it."
46
"Well, for starters, we have to do more to create demand for new technologies that can reduce our dependence on foreign oil and environmental degradation."
39
"We need to reduce or at least limit U.S. demand for oil as quickly as possible, and we need to develop new technologies that can further help address our addiction to oil in the future."
43
"The way things are going, we are not too far from the day when it will take an hour's labor just to pay for the gasoline to get to the job."
41
"The U.S. uses most of its oil for transportation. We can limit U.S. demand for oil by requiring automakers to use the technology that already exists to improve fuel economy - technology that the automakers refuse to bring into the market despite societal demand."
29
"Our oil problems are only going to get worse. Our trade balance is only going to get worse. So we have to slow the growth of U.S. oil consumption, particularly imported oil consumption."
45
"So we in Congress have a very clear choice. We can take largely symbolic action and sit back and fiddle while Americans burn more gasoline. Or we can pass concrete, effective legislation that will save consumers money while significantly reducing U.S. oil consumption."
37
"But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is the vehicle for collective action in a democracy."
36
"Mr. Speaker, the time for an increase in the minimum wage has not just arrived; it is long overdue."
46
"Let me start by emphasizing that I am open to efforts to expedite environmental procedures for true emergencies or in other clear cases where current laws are needlessly burdensome."
45
"I don't see a groundswell of people willing to raise gas taxes right now. That leaves fuel economy standards as the only effective tool we have as a nation to make a dent in our dangerous and ever growing consumption of oil."
67
"Having yet another vote on refinery legislation that uses high oil prices as an excuse to weaken environmental protections and to give more legislative gifts to the oil industry is misguided in the extreme."
36
bottom of page