The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns. Lawrence S. Kubie More Quotes by Lawrence S. Kubie More Quotes From Lawrence S. Kubie Today's family is built like a pyramid; with all the intrafamilial rivalries, tensions, jealousies, angers, hatreds, loves and needs focused on the untrained, vulnerable, insecure, young, inexperienced and incompetent parental apex ... about whose incompetence our vaunted educational system does nothing. Lawrence S. Kubie education time love Normality is the ability to learn by experience, to be flexible, and to adapt to a changing environment. Lawrence S. Kubie flexible changing-environment ability