“When I was in high school, I wanted to be a counselor and I wanted to ...” — Shay Mitchell Quote

When I was in high school, I wanted to be a counselor and I wanted to work with kids. I've been through the worst of high school. And I want to motivate people to live the best life that they can, because we're only here for one life.

We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.

I actually just rock-climbed when I was away on vacation and now I'm searching out rock climbing gyms. That's my new obsession for 2013.

You lie when you're a teenager, I think, because your parents are treating you like you're younger and you - in your mind - think that you're so much older. You make up all of these lies because you think it's what you should do.

I would say that my role model, as far as just somebody leading by example, which to me is what a great youth counselor does - they are there to talk to and lead by example - would be my mom, but she wasn't a youth counselor. She was a teacher, and she is a good person and definitely one of the biggest influences in my life.

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

We have guidance counselors that have caseloads of 500 to 600 children. We don't have enough to help the children.

We need to make sure that we have mental health counselors in our schools. We need to make sure that we have possibly a law enforcement security guards in each one of the schools.