feel oneself

Verb

Meaning

(idiomatic) To feel comfortable or normal; to be in one's usual mood or state of health.
I hope you don't mind if I cancel our date this afternoon – I just don't feel myself today.

To touch oneself.

Examples

Never does one feel oneself so utterly helpless as in trying to speak comfort for great bereavement. I will not try it. Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother. Jane Welsh Carlyle

To live is to feel oneself lost. José Ortega y Gasset

...to feel oneself a martyr, as everybody knows, is a pleasurable thing... Robert Erskine Childers

To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future. Bertrand Russell

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