Paradoxes as things needing balance / highly alternating things...
A "paradoxical quote" I just realised is a quote is the middle of balances like a see-saw that doesn't move but what you are actively trying to maintaining in the balance(s).
So it may seem not much happening but you are actively trying to restrict / slow down / balance things so they seem neither one thing or another (or even both extremes at the same time but oscillating or fluctuating fast / highly alternating things...)!