{"id":65022,"url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/65022-when-i-loved-myself-enough-by-kim-mcmillen","short_url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/65022","headline":"“When I Loved Myself Enough” || by Kim McMillen","content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhen I loved myself enough:\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003eI quit settling for too little.\u003cbr\u003eI came to know my own goodness.\u003cbr\u003eI began taking the gift of life seriously and gratefully.\u003cbr\u003eI began to know I was in the right place at the right time and I could relax.\u003cbr\u003eI felt compelled to slow down way down. And that has made all the difference.\u003cbr\u003eI came to love being alone, surrounded by silence awed by its spell, listening to inner space.................\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePoster's Note:\u003c/strong\u003e\u0026nbsp;These are selected Stanzas from Kim McMillen's book \"When I Loved Myself Enough”\u0026nbsp; -\u0026nbsp; Published\u0026nbsp;posthumously\u0026nbsp;in English by her daughter Alison McMillen. The beautiful short writing underwent a couple of language translations by others and much of her writing has over time been copied, changed, and miss-attributed\u0026nbsp;on the Internet to Charlie Chaplin.\u0026nbsp;In addition to the numerous websites that reproduced this poem in full, while attributing it to Chaplin, parts of her poem have also been used to create share-worthy memes featuring the famous actor’s image. The book is still available in print and electronic form\u0026nbsp;\u003cbr\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","content_plain":"When I loved myself enough: I quit settling for too little.I came to know my own goodness.I began taking the gift of life seriously and gratefully.I began to know I was in the right place at the right time and I could relax.I felt compelled to slow down way down. And that has made all the difference.I came to love being alone, surrounded by silence awed by its spell, listening to inner space.................Poster's Note: These are selected Stanzas from Kim McMillen's book \"When I Loved Myself Enough”  -  Published posthumously in English by her daughter Alison McMillen. The beautiful short writing underwent a couple of language translations by others and much of her writing has over time been copied, changed, and miss-attributed on the Internet to Charlie Chaplin. In addition to the numerous websites that reproduced this poem in full, while attributing it to Chaplin, parts of her poem have also been used to create share-worthy memes featuring the famous actor’s image. The book is still available in print and electronic form ","published_at":"2025-11-15T21:22:35-08:00","updated_at":"2025-11-15T21:22:35-08:00","author":{"type":"Person","name":"Between the Lines","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/297657-between-the-lines"},"description":"Stay up-to-date with Between the Lines on Kudos365. View their post published Jun/11/2020 on Books, Literature . Browse your favorite topics and share your expertise, too.","type":"post","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/site/square-kudos-share-image-300.jpg?fm=jpg\u0026auto=format,compress","likes_count":17,"comments_count":1,"categories":[{"name":"Books, Literature ","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/913-books-literature"}],"schema":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"CreativeWork","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/news/65022-when-i-loved-myself-enough-by-kim-mcmillen","headline":"“When I Loved Myself Enough” || by Kim McMillen","image":"https://k365pi.imgix.net/site/square-kudos-share-image-300.jpg?fm=jpg\u0026auto=format,compress","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Between the Lines","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/profiles/297657-between-the-lines"},"datePublished":"2025-11-15T21:22:35-08:00","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/LikeAction","userInteractionCount":17}],"subjectOf":[{"@type":"Thing","name":"Books, Literature ","url":"https://www.kudos365.com/categories/913-books-literature"}]}}