I would sacrifice my entire soul for my sons happiness.

Right now I sacrifice 75% of my own but it gets me nothing in return or I get treated unkindly anyway...so I'm at the point where I won't sacrifice much anymore :) Maybe only 10%

I've sacrificed unthinkable amounts of possible happiness to give my brother a good, comfortable life, and he is the only thing I would ever choose over myself, even if the choice was life or death. I don't think I would sacrifice my happiness for anyone else. I'm very selfish. The whole "brother" thing is an example of how love can make a deeply selfish, probably at least somewhat immoral person act altruistically.

I have just been pondering that question lately. My youngest son lost his job and moved in with us,along with his pregnant girlfriend. Two of my grandsons were already staying here, to attend school in our area. I had to give up my sewing room, and a whole lot of privacy to give them a place to stay. Now the baby is here. Only the grandsons (adults) clean up after themselves, which is why I was happy to have them. Sonny and his girlfriend do not clean up anything, and I finally had to stop using the hall bathroom, since I was tired of being the maid. Now I am stuck with the master bath, which only has a tiny shower and no bathtub, so no more long relaxing soaks in the tub. I either have to clean up the kitchen myself, or argue with the girlfriend over who made the mess. She is lazy, argumentative, and ungrateful. They insist on having the air conditioning on all the time, and leave their door open to the back yard half the time. She brought a hamster and a rabbit with her, which both died from her neglect, after ruining the carpets in three different rooms. Hubby and I can no longer go to the beach once a month and stay in a hotel, because it is so expensive having five extra mouths to feed. So, I'm asking myself, where does it all end?

I've sacrficed alot of happiness for the happiness of others already... My being happy isn't important. The Happiness of my Loved ones, that is what matters.

Actually I am happy inside ,by nature.And by giving in,if that is how you are wording your question,is a sign of giving up happiness,it does not happen in me.I am happy and if others are happy ,then I am even happier.

There's a hidden problem in the question. We normally think "it's heroic to sacrifice our own happiness for others", or perhaps "I don't want to sacrifice my own happiness for others". It seems like common sense that our own happiness comes at the expense of others, and vice versa... a "zero sum game". But this way of thinking is rooted in an illusion. The illusion is that there's an absolute separation between ourself and others. This simply isn't true. In theory, we're each entitled to "the pursuit of happiness", but in practice there's no such thing as "individual happiness", for the simple reason that no human being is a little island off on their own, capable of "blissing out" while everyone else suffers. While it's true that individuals can experience times of great pleasure, these episodes are transient... and the effort to hang onto those experiences and "protect" them is always futile. In the end, life always seeps back in, with it's irritating insistence that all is interconnected -- the suffering of a child dying of malnutrition in Asia is MY suffering, the war between two angry factions in the Middle East is MY war, and the sadness of a mother who lost her child to disease is MY sadness. To believe otherwise is to suffer from the "delusion of separateness", which actually precludes any sort of truly sustainable happiness. The great irony of life is that in order to be truly happy, I must be willing to let in the suffering of the world... to allow myself to be touched by the pain of others -- and that naturally leads to action on their behalf. Trying to isolate myself guarantees a perpetual quest for that which cannot be: a separate peace with life.

For my family...as much as is needed even if it means all of it.

I don't think it's possible to sacrifice happiness for others. I mean, you are either happy or you aren't. Sacrifice doesn't really have anything to do with that. You can sacrifice things for others--things like a job your really want or having more or less children then you want. In those cases, you can still be quite happy if you feel the sacrifice was worth it. If you don't feel that way you may end up miserable. But, that is just how you have chosen to perceive the merit of the sacrifice. It's not the sacrifice itself that has made you happy or not.

I would sacrifice all my happiness so another was happy, a philosophy i live by is 'I dont care what happens to me as long as the other person is happy'. Selfless, and can cause me pain..but the happiness it brings to others makes it all worthwhile to me

I would sacrifice all of it for my girlfriend to be happy, but then again, seeing her happy makes me happy, so really I'm not sacrificing anything! :) I hope this makes sense!

Oh really I will become very happy because I could do something for whom he/she expect to do from anybody else. This is what my Grant mother teach me before her death after 102 years live on earth. My grant mother didnt teach me but I learn this from her lifestyle since I notice from my childhood. I pray to God almighty that to allow me more in this short lfe to help to sacrifice for others. Tony George