“Deny your desires and you will find what your heart longs for. For how do you know if any desire of yours is according to God?”
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Ibn Shu’ba al-Harrani, Tuhaf al-'Uqul, p. 479
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“The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.”
Vorkosigan Saga, Memory (1996)
Context: Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 601.

As quoted in Remarks of Famous People (1965) by Jacob Morton Braude, p. 23

Song lyrics, Slow Train Coming (1979), When You Gonna Wake Up