what is the difference betwin love and sacrifice?

Answer 1

Love is a radiating light. It offers a unique delight. You share and mutually grow when you love someone and that person loves you. It is mutually fulfilling.
Sacrifice is an act when you give up what you think you own, for the sake of higher good. It may be for your lover, for someone who is dear to you, or to a cause that you hold dear.In sacrifice there is only an emotional satisfaction.

Answer 2

Love accepts gladly oblivious the losses love entails. The value of love completely overshadows its costs. The giddy bride and groom 'forsaking all others' feel no loss; their union, their love is now their only value. That's why I cry at weddings; that kind of thing shocks and horrifies me worse than a chainsaw movie does.

Sacrifice, on the other hand, has an almost admirable sneaky streak. The sacrificer, like a slick book-cooking accountant, has calculated a profitable exchange: we shall spend this valuable thing to attain this more valuable thing. Moreover, the sacrificer reckons, hopes, wishes or believes that there is a causal link between the expense of the one thing and the attainment of the other. Sacrifice manipulates the appreciable now for a desirable later. Sacrifice is a creature of the market; the market, however, isn't always entirely real.

Sacrifices can be irrational acts. Dropping coins in a well, for instance, is a sacrifice. So is buying a lottery ticket. So is slaughtering a virgin to appease the rain god. These sacrifices are perhaps somewhat 'justified' by their psychological effects on the sacrificer. The lottery ticket sacrifice, which most of us indulge ourselves in, rents a little hope until the drawing removes that pleasant doubt that we will still be poor next Sunday morning. The coin in the well releases the imagination for a few enjoyable moments. I suppose something similar happens in the mind of that dude over there with the big obsidian knife.

Love isn't calculating, as is sacrifice--but it can be every bit as irrational, as I'm sure you already know.

I'm gonna suggest this radical notion. Prefer sacrifices to love that would sacrifice YOU. That is, run away from that all-consuming passion. YOU might be the all that is consumed. Go lie under the bed and stay there 'til the feeling passes. When it does pass--three weeks should do it--consider what you have, what you can attain, the exchanges you can manipulate, etc. In short, be a Jane Austen character.

Answer 3

Practically speaking, Sacrifice is just love in "Action" !
There cannot be a sacrifice without love for something.
If the situation does not need, the love remains within, unable to be seen (perhaps even by a person who is being loved !)..
Where as sacrifice is forgoing something, so it has to be manifest in some kind of action, an act of abstention even, though it may not get noticed by others.

Answer 4

A great way to manipulate people.

1. If you love me, then you will do X, Y or Z. If you do not do X, Y or Z, then of course this means that you *do not* love me.

2. If you love me, then you would sacrifice X, Y or X. If you *do not* sacrifice X, Y or Z for me, then of course you *do not* love me.

1 and 2 are the same.

Please don't sacrifice anything for me. You would become bitter and resent me. I'd prefer that not happen.

Answer 5

my love for you could make me want to sacrifice my life for you. But if you didn't love me and if i was to sacrifice my life for the sake of winning your love, most likely i would fail.

the reason for the act of sacrifice could be anything where as the reason for the act of love is just love.

Love is an overloaded word, so assuming we are talking about the kind of love between a man & a woman.

Answer 6

Love you give and receive. Sacrifice means you just give, getting nothing in return. Of course sacrifice is the ultimate expression of love. When you care for someone so much you would give up anything, even your own life, to save them (as Jesus did for us...unless you're not Christian in which case disregard...)

Answer 7

You can sacrifice a lot for anyone - friends, family, strangers (some people do!) etc. However, love is when you want to be together with that person and make him/her happy.

Most importantly, you do not need to love someone in order to make sacrifices for him/her.

Answer 8

Love=living for someone, sacrifice=dying for someone; in the end, love proves to be much powerful as sacrifice has a phase and love doesnt.

Answer 9

No difference, becoz Sacrifice is the other face of the coin called Love.

Answer 10

We sacrifice everying or somethling or at least one thing for the sake of somebody we love but we do not not love somebody (if the love is real) to sacrifice them.