“Wherever your heart is, that is where you'll find your treasure.”

—  Paulo Coelho, book The Alchemist

Compare to the Bible, Luke 12:34 (For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.)(NIV translation).
Variant: Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 128

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