He fights

Whenever I start making progress in things I desire, something or another comes out of no where, whacks me down and beats me up. Sometimes I feel like giving up, I know that many others would have given up long ago. But I always remember this quote, it's really close to my heart: “The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly" - Thomas Paine

He looks back through light

The pillars of creation. What an absolutely amazing and incredibly symbolic picture. I love it so much, just imagining wandering space and seeing something like this...Though I'd be so small that there's no way I could get a vantage point nice enough to see the entire thing, nor probably the heat sensing capabilities. But the really amazing thing, is that even though we have this picture...This formation hasn't existed for our entire lives...In fact, 6000 years ago it would have been overwhelmed and disappeared into the supernova around which it formed. It's similar to how we can look in the mirror and in fact we are seeing backwards in time.

He learns

Maybe for some of us it's not about the academic superiority, not about the competitive grades or the goodlife-guaranteeing-universities, maybe for some of us, doing well academically is about that moment when you learn. That moment when you connect, the spark of intuition, the realization of possibilities, the fascination with everything that is and the obsession with everything that can be.