Oh, it was all so simple.

I did an interview in the late ’80s with a mother who had watched her son die.  She crawled into bed with him as he was dying. And his last words were, “Oh, it was all so simple.” And then he smiled. When she said that, I got chills.

We’re going to take our last breath and say, “Why were we struggling all that time?  Why were we swimming upstream? Where all we had to do was just look at each other and accept each other for who each of us represents on the planet.” I thought back to that quote. Ah, it was so simple. I didn’t have to fight that hard. It didn’t have to be that hard.

That show, along with many others, had a powerful and calming impact on me in terms of the way I led my own life.

Oprah Winfrey