not oneself

Idioms  

1. Not feeling physically or mentally well, as in I think there's something wrong; he's not himself, or She seemed to be improving last week, but she's just not feeling herself today. Also see feel like oneself.

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not oneself

She said this “new” ethic should be based on Thomas Aquinas’s definition of love: willing the good of the other for the sake of that person and not oneself.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 23, 2022

Provided of course that it affects other people and not oneself.

From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2020

"To love the church means also to have the courage to take difficult, painful decisions, always keeping the good of the church in mind, not oneself," Pope Benedict said to thundering applause.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2013

It is not oneself but something in the universe that one’s left with.

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 27, 1954

To be alone, to be oneself, not to be driven or violated into something which is not oneself, surely it is better than anything.

From Aaron's Rod by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)